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31 March 2011

• 17:2717:27, 31 March 2011 Metaphor (hist | edit) [1,617 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''Metaphors''' are essential and important, as Lakoff and Johnson argued so convincingly in "Metaphors We Live By". Many of our discussions here are philosophical, and the main...")

26 March 2011

• 04:4004:40, 26 March 2011 Biological Evolution (hist | edit) [422 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Biological evolution''' describes how biological life-forms have developed over time. In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms ...")
• 04:1104:11, 26 March 2011 Universe (hist | edit) [141 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''universe''' is the totality of all known or supposed objects and phenomena, taken as a whole, in short, everything we perceive to exist.")
• 04:0904:09, 26 March 2011 Cosmic Evolution (hist | edit) [436 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In its broadest sense '''cosmic evolution''' describes how the universe, including the elementary particles and fundamental substances, have developed over time. It ...")
• 04:0004:00, 26 March 2011 Cultural Evolution (hist | edit) [759 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In its broadest sense '''cultural evolution''' describes how cultures and societies have developed over time. Genes are not the only form of replicators, and biological ...")
• 03:5103:51, 26 March 2011 Chaos (hist | edit) [275 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the old traditional sense, '''chaos''' is a state of extreme confusion, disorder, and unconstrained randomness, in the new physical sense of Chaos Theory, chaos is the behavio...")

7 March 2011

• 15:4315:43, 7 March 2011 Social contract (hist | edit) [1,384 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''social contract''' is an implicit agreement among people, persons or agents that results in the organization of complex society, the individual surrende...")

6 March 2011

• 14:0414:04, 6 March 2011 Complex Society (hist | edit) [7,096 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''complex society''' or civilization is a society in an advanced state of social development, e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations. During the...")
• 09:0409:04, 6 March 2011 Swarm (hist | edit) [1,744 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''swarm''' is a moving crowd: a group of similar agents who share the same place and move in the same direction. In short, a swarm is a group of animals that aggregate and tra...")
• 07:5907:59, 6 March 2011 Collective Intelligence (hist | edit) [2,999 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''Collective intelligence''' is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals in a group. A group of people can act sma...") originally created as "Collective intelligence"
• 04:0604:06, 6 March 2011 Crowd (hist | edit) [2,134 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''crowd''' is a large and definable group of people considered together. == Crowdsourcing == Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an e...")

5 March 2011

• 15:2815:28, 5 March 2011 Consciousness (hist | edit) [3,196 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Consciousness''' is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness, alertness, wakefulness, and the ability to experience "feeling". It is an umbrella term that may ref...")

3 March 2011

• 17:2017:20, 3 March 2011 Flow (hist | edit) [1,057 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''flow''' is information which enters, spreads through and leaves a system over a period of time. It can be realized in a system behavior as a discrete series of events over ...")
• 16:3416:34, 3 March 2011 Phase transition (hist | edit) [852 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''phase transition''' is the transformation of a system from one global phase or state to another, for example from an ordered to a disordered phase. The term is most commonl...")

1 March 2011

• 15:5415:54, 1 March 2011 Attractor (hist | edit) [3,062 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''attractor''' is a set to which a dynamical system evolves over time. This is can a point, a curve or manifold to which a system tends to move. If the manifold is chaotic, t...")
• 15:3515:35, 1 March 2011 Computational irreducibility (hist | edit) [775 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Computational irreducibility''' is one of the main ideas proposed by Stephen Wolfram in his book A New Kind of Science. Computations that cannot be sped up by means of any sho...")

26 February 2011

• 12:0912:09, 26 February 2011 Gene (hist | edit) [913 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''gene''' is a genetic replicator, a basic unit of heredity in a living organism, and a segment of DNA that is involved in producing proteins. == Links == * Wikipedia entry ...")
• 12:0112:01, 26 February 2011 Community (hist | edit) [343 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''community''' is a group with a certain social structure or social network == Links == * Wikipedia link for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network ...")
• 11:5811:58, 26 February 2011 Core community (hist | edit) [833 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''core community''' or core team is a subset of a community or social network which is made of active core members that contribute frequently and setup the...")
• 11:3611:36, 26 February 2011 Bifurcation (hist | edit) [527 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " A '''bifurcation''' occurs when a small smooth change made to the parameter values (the bifurcation parameters) of a system causes a sudden 'qualitative' or topological change...")
• 08:5508:55, 26 February 2011 Interaction (hist | edit) [255 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''Interaction''' is a basic form of operation between agents in a complex adaptive system. It.. * can be competitive. * can be cooperativ...")
• 08:5208:52, 26 February 2011 Niche (hist | edit) [1,438 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''niche''' is a term describing the relational position of an agent in the system, for example the position of a species or population in its ecosystem, or the position of a c...")
• 07:5407:54, 26 February 2011 Iteration (hist | edit) [2,139 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Iteration is related to feedback, it is the mathematical counterpart of feedback: : "Iteration is the mathematical counterpart of feedback. Feedback in general is a...")
• 07:2707:27, 26 February 2011 New Kinds of Science (hist | edit) [5,738 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "New and unconventional forms of computation can result in new kinds of science and in new universes as well. Computation has given us access to new models, but it also opened up ...")
• 06:5606:56, 26 February 2011 Social system (hist | edit) [523 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''social system''' is a group of people, persons or agents organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships. Social structure is a term used in sociology and the other s...")

22 February 2011

• 17:1317:13, 22 February 2011 Hard problem of consciousness (hist | edit) [1,567 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " The '''hard problem of consciousness''' is the problem of explaining why we have qualitative phenomenal experiences. The existence of a "Hard Problem" is controversial and has b...")
• 16:3816:38, 22 February 2011 Social network (hist | edit) [956 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''social network''' is a social structure made of agents or individuals which are connected by a specific type of relationship, such as friendship or kinship.")
• 16:3616:36, 22 February 2011 Gift (hist | edit) [957 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''gift''' or a present is the transfer of something valuable without the expectation of receiving something in return. It can be used to fabricate, create and recreate a conne...")
• 16:1916:19, 22 February 2011 Emotion (hist | edit) [4,038 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " An '''emotion''' is a strong feeling. Emotions are not only feelings which color our life. The appraisal function is only one side, the other side is an action tendency which pr...")
• 16:0416:04, 22 February 2011 Core relational theme (hist | edit) [14,936 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Emotions are not only feelings which color our life. The appraisal function is only one side, the other side is an action tendency which prepares the body for action. Nico H. Fri...")
• 15:2915:29, 22 February 2011 Collective intention (hist | edit) [138 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Collective intention''' is the pursuit of a goal or set of goals by more than one agent or person. Category:Collective Processes")
• 15:2715:27, 22 February 2011 Collective perception (hist | edit) [857 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Collective perception''' or '''collective cognition''' is the common cogntion of a particular object by more than one agent or person. It is similar to [[Collective action|col...")

21 February 2011

• 16:2816:28, 21 February 2011 Collective action (hist | edit) [1,161 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Collective action''' is the pursuit of a goal or set of goals by more than one agent or person. A large group can be dangerous for the individual, for example during a mass pa...")

16 February 2011

• 18:2018:20, 16 February 2011 Political system (hist | edit) [684 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Politics is the social science that is used to explain the behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, aca...")
• 17:5917:59, 16 February 2011 Economic system (hist | edit) [694 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The '''economy''' is the overall system of production and dist...")
• 16:4916:49, 16 February 2011 Theorem (hist | edit) [5,143 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''theorem''' is essentially a statement to the effect that some domain is structured in a particular way. If the theorem is interesting, the structure characterized by the t...")
• 16:0616:06, 16 February 2011 Meme (hist | edit) [3,409 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A meme identifies ideas or beliefs that are transmitted from one person or group of people to another. The concept comes from an analogy: as genes transmit biological in...")

15 February 2011

• 15:1415:14, 15 February 2011 Collective consciousness (hist | edit) [7,615 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with " What we call self aware exists in some form in a society, too. Everything which represents the society can lead to some form of self-awareness in the society, for example a spor...")

18 December 2010

• 18:1718:17, 18 December 2010 SOSSS (hist | edit) [1,187 bytes] Arthur Westfall (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.co...')

15 May 2010

• 10:2010:20, 15 May 2010 Punctuated equilibrium (hist | edit) [1,133 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ' '''Punctuated equilibrium''' is a concept proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. The basic idea is that evolution over very long time spans tends to be charac...')

30 September 2009

• 14:2014:20, 30 September 2009 Flocking (hist | edit) [1,176 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ' '''Flocking''' is the collective motion of a large number of self-propelled entities and is a collective animal behavior exhibited by many living beings such as birds, fish, bac...')

22 September 2009

• 14:2014:20, 22 September 2009 Curiosity (hist | edit) [1,944 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''Curiosity''' is the drive to learn new things, and therefore one of the drives behind adaptation. The tremendous computational power of a human brain comes from...')

4 September 2009

• 14:2514:25, 4 September 2009 Gene Regulatory Network (hist | edit) [760 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ' A '''gene regulatory network''' or genetic regulatory network (GRN) is a number of genes or DNA segments in a cell which interact with each other (indirectly through their RNA a...')

3 September 2009

• 16:2016:20, 3 September 2009 Cognitive consonance (hist | edit) [1,185 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ' '''Cognitive consonance''' is a comfortable and pleasant state of harmony and internal consistency arising from compatibility among a person's attitudes, behavior, beliefs, and/...')
• 16:1416:14, 3 September 2009 Cognitive dissonance (hist | edit) [1,132 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''Cognitive dissonance''' is an uncomfortable and unpleasant feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. It is a psychological term denoting the mental sta...')

26 August 2009

• 15:3815:38, 26 August 2009 Self-Regulation (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'See the Invisible Hand')
• 15:3115:31, 26 August 2009 Invisible Hand (hist | edit) [3,305 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with 'In economics, the '''invisible hand''' is used to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. The invisible hand is a metaphor coined by the economist Adam Smith in "...')

22 June 2009

• 13:3413:34, 22 June 2009 Pain (hist | edit) [143 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''Pain''' is a mechanism for Self-Protection')

20 May 2009

• 17:1517:15, 20 May 2009 Saltation (hist | edit) [483 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (New page: In biology, '''saltation''' (from Latin, saltus, "leap") is a sudden change from one generation to the next, that is large, or very large, in comparison with the usual variation of an orga...)

7 May 2009

• 15:2515:25, 7 May 2009 Scaling Laws (hist | edit) [1,699 bytes] Jfromm (talk | contribs) (New page: Geoffrey B. West and James H. Brown discovered that allometric '''scaling laws''', including the 3/4 power law for metabolic rates, are characteristic of all organisms. One factor which ...)