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9 December 2012

• 16:4616:46, 9 December 2012 Preferential attachment (hist | edit) [499 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''preferential attachment''' process is any of a class of processes in which some quantity, typically some form of wealth or credit, is distributed among a number of individua...")

5 October 2012

• 16:5516:55, 5 October 2012 Extinction (hist | edit) [707 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Extinction''' is the state or process of a species, family, or larger group being or becoming extinct. In modern usage, the word refers to "a terminal event in the...")
• 16:1216:12, 5 October 2012 Replicator (hist | edit) [495 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''replicator''' is a unit of selection, something which can be replicated and copied. It is used to refer "to any entity of which copies are made" (Keller and Lloyd, 1992). A...")
• 14:3914:39, 5 October 2012 Fitness (hist | edit) [983 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In evolutionary biology, '''fitness''' is an individual's ability to propagate its genes. It is a measure how good an organism or species is adapted to its enviro...")

13 May 2012

• 14:2114:21, 13 May 2012 Culture (hist | edit) [993 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Culture is an abstract with a variety of meaning. In anthropology and systems theory, culture is a central and unifying concept. Here culture is defined as the set of learned be...")
• 14:1114:11, 13 May 2012 Species (hist | edit) [1,188 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''species''' is a reproductively isolated, independent evolutionary unit which occupies a certain niche. In biology it is a taxonomic group whose members can interbreed: a gr...")

16 April 2012

• 15:5715:57, 16 April 2012 Innovation (hist | edit) [322 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Innovation''' is the invention of a '''new''' method, idea or product")

21 February 2012

• 17:1317:13, 21 February 2012 Subjectivity (hist | edit) [3,170 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''Subjectivity''' is generally defined as a judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings or opinions rather than external facts. == The observer == Subject...")
• 16:2016:20, 21 February 2012 Context Dependence (hist | edit) [959 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{SelfOrg}} '''Context dependence''' exists when the outcome of a process depends on its current context or environment, and is certainly a property of many [[Complex Adaptive S...")

11 February 2012

• 05:2205:22, 11 February 2012 Social attractor (hist | edit) [2,102 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''social attractor''' is an attractor in the state or phase space of a society. It is a kind of pattern, structure or organizational form which we find in a social system agai...")

7 February 2012

• 16:2616:26, 7 February 2012 Hive mind (hist | edit) [706 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''hive mind''' is an emergent property of apparent sentience that arises from the behaviors of a group of individuals which share a certain interest. Such a group can react f...")
• 15:2315:23, 7 February 2012 Collective motion (hist | edit) [1,150 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Collective motion''' is coordinated motion of a large group of animals. A large or dense group of animals, esp. flying ones, is named a swarm. == Links == * Tamás Vicsek, ...")

1 February 2012

• 14:5214:52, 1 February 2012 Recursion (hist | edit) [860 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Recursion''' is the repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition. A recursive process is a self-similar process in which objects are defined in terms of other ...")

31 January 2012

• 13:4913:49, 31 January 2012 Food web (hist | edit) [316 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''food web''' is a system of interlocking, interrelated and interdependent food chains. The links in food chains and food webs are representations of predator-prey relation...")

7 January 2012

• 16:2516:25, 7 January 2012 Transcendence (hist | edit) [449 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Tran·scend·ence''' means according to the dictionary an existence, experience or transition beyond the normal or physical level. In mathematics, transcendence refers to the ...")
• 16:1916:19, 7 January 2012 Strong Emergence (hist | edit) [598 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "left|Strong Emergence Strong emergence is the emergence of emergent properties in a system where it is not possible to infer the prope...")
• 16:1716:17, 7 January 2012 Weak Emergence (hist | edit) [513 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "left|Weak Emergence Weak emergence is the occurence of emergent properties in a system where it is possible to infer the properties of the whole, given t...")

29 August 2011

• 02:0402:04, 29 August 2011 Coupling constant (hist | edit) [742 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " In physics, a coupling constant, is a number that determines the strength of an interaction or the strength of a given force. For example, the electric charge of a particle is a...")
• 01:5801:58, 29 August 2011 Link (hist | edit) [967 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''link''' from one node to another is the basic element in a social network. It is a connection between nodes, elements, agents or individuals, and can represent a specif...")

1 May 2011

• 04:1204:12, 1 May 2011 Cooperation (hist | edit) [1,183 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Cooperation''' is a joint operation or action between individuals, groups, animals, etc. to achieve a common goal. It is the opposite of competition, where ea...")
• 04:0204:02, 1 May 2011 Competition (hist | edit) [1,092 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Competition''' is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It is the opposite of cooperation. ...")
• 03:4303:43, 1 May 2011 Ecology of Mind (hist | edit) [3,296 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " The term '''Ecology of Mind''' has been coined by Gregory Bateson. In the Society of Mind approach, we try to understand the mind as a society, as a social group of interact...")
• 03:1403:14, 1 May 2011 Fractal (hist | edit) [541 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''fractal''' is a geometric, self-similar pattern that is repeated at every scale. It is a geometric figure that displays self-similarity, i.e. it repeats itself under several...")
• 02:5902:59, 1 May 2011 Evolvability (hist | edit) [1,124 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Evolvability is defined as the capacity of a system for adaptive evolution. Adaptive evolution is possible by generation of heritable phenotypic variation. Evolvability is the a...")
• 02:5102:51, 1 May 2011 Sacrifice (hist | edit) [250 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''sacrifice''' is is commonly known as the practice of offering valuable objects to the gods, the group or the community. It is * like a gift to the group/community ...")

17 April 2011

• 12:0512:05, 17 April 2011 Camouflage (hist | edit) [1,493 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Camouflage is an adaptation of appearance.")