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Lecture Notes 2025
Patterns, Emergence & Self-Organization
Emergence & Self-Organization
| What It Is | The production of patterns along various spatio-temporo-energy dimensions. |
| Why It Matters | Creating GMI (general machine intelligence) systems likely requires new methodologies that do not build on standard ways to build software systems, as used in traditional engineering and computer science, which were all created for use by existing general intelligences (humans). These typically consist of pipelines, a-priori hand-coding, update rates that depend on slowest sub-process, pre-compilation, etc., In seeking appropriate methodologies, to help our imagination adopt new paradigms it may help to look at the nature and behavior of systems that involve a different and more diverse set of principles. |
| Regularity | When the result of a comparison between two sets of data are found to overlap it is called regularity. The overlap can be computed in various ways; different comparison methods resulting in different patterns. Regularity is hypothesized to be caused by rules. |
| Patterns | Patterns arise in a system made of parts or components, where the whose components interact in multiple ways, following (hypothesized) rules. |
| What is Emergence? | In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Source: Emergence on Wikipedia |
| Related Concept: Complexity | Interaction between parts of a set of things, leading to a variety of patterns that include nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity |
Examples of Self-Organization (Emergence)
| Group Clapping | Try this in class: Start clapping; aim for clapping at the same rate as everyone else in the room. Self-organization without centralized control. |
| Conway's Game of Life | Link to Applet |
Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
| What it is | A chemical reaction discovered in 1950. |
| Why it's important | Great visual example of the kind of emergent patterns can be created through auto-catalysis (chemical in this case). One of the first (the first?) scientifically published example of emergence identified as such. |
| Real version on Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBa4kgXI4Cg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3uL5PRsZw&feature=related |
| Simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction |  |
| Belousov-Zhabotinsky | Took almost a decade for Belousov to get the work published. |
| Source | Wikipedia |
How the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Works
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| A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. Wikipedia |
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