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(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 21:46, 9 December 2012 Preferential attachment (hist) [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...")
- 21:55, 5 October 2012 Extinction (hist) [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...")
- 21:12, 5 October 2012 Replicator (hist) [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...")
- 19:39, 5 October 2012 Fitness (hist) [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...")
- 19:21, 13 May 2012 Culture (hist) [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...")
- 19:11, 13 May 2012 Species (hist) [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...")
- 20:57, 16 April 2012 Innovation (hist) [322 bytes] Jfromm (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Innovation''' is the invention of a '''new''' method, idea or product")
- 22:13, 21 February 2012 Subjectivity (hist) [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...")
- 21:20, 21 February 2012 Context Dependence (hist) [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...")
- 10:22, 11 February 2012 Social attractor (hist) [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...")
- 21:26, 7 February 2012 Hive mind (hist) [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...")
- 20:23, 7 February 2012 Collective motion (hist) [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, ...")
- 19:52, 1 February 2012 Recursion (hist) [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 ...")
- 18:49, 31 January 2012 Food web (hist) [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...")
- 21:25, 7 January 2012 Transcendence (hist) [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 ...")
- 21:19, 7 January 2012 Strong Emergence (hist) [598 bytes] Jfromm (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Strong Emergence Strong emergence is the emergence of emergent properties in a system where it is not possible to infer the prope...")
- 21:17, 7 January 2012 Weak Emergence (hist) [513 bytes] Jfromm (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "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...")
- 07:04, 29 August 2011 Coupling constant (hist) [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...")
- 06:58, 29 August 2011 Link (hist) [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...")
- 09:12, 1 May 2011 Cooperation (hist) [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...")
- 09:02, 1 May 2011 Competition (hist) [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. ...")
- 08:43, 1 May 2011 Ecology of Mind (hist) [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...")
- 08:14, 1 May 2011 Fractal (hist) [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...")
- 07:59, 1 May 2011 Evolvability (hist) [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...")
- 07:51, 1 May 2011 Sacrifice (hist) [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 ...")
- 17:05, 17 April 2011 Camouflage (hist) [1,493 bytes] Jfromm (Talk | contribs) (Created page with " Camouflage is an adaptation of appearance.")
- 22:27, 31 March 2011 Metaphor (hist) [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...")
- 09:40, 26 March 2011 Biological Evolution (hist) [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 ...")
- 09:11, 26 March 2011 Universe (hist) [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.")
- 09:09, 26 March 2011 Cosmic Evolution (hist) [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 ...")
- 09:00, 26 March 2011 Cultural Evolution (hist) [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 ...")
- 08:51, 26 March 2011 Chaos (hist) [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...")
- 20:43, 7 March 2011 Social contract (hist) [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...")
- 19:08, 6 March 2011 Civilization (hist) [29 bytes] Jfromm (Talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Complex Society)
- 19:04, 6 March 2011 Complex Society (hist) [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...")
- 14:04, 6 March 2011 Swarm (hist) [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...")
- 12:59, 6 March 2011 Collective intelligence (hist) [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...")
- 09:06, 6 March 2011 Crowd (hist) [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...")
- 20:28, 5 March 2011 Consciousness (hist) [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...")
- 22:20, 3 March 2011 Flow (hist) [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 ...")
- 21:34, 3 March 2011 Phase transition (hist) [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...")
- 20:54, 1 March 2011 Attractor (hist) [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...")
- 20:35, 1 March 2011 Computational irreducibility (hist) [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...")
- 17:09, 26 February 2011 Gene (hist) [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 ...")
- 17:01, 26 February 2011 Community (hist) [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 ...")
- 16:58, 26 February 2011 Core community (hist) [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...")
- 16:36, 26 February 2011 Bifurcation (hist) [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...")
- 13:55, 26 February 2011 Interaction (hist) [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...")
- 13:52, 26 February 2011 Niche (hist) [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...")
- 12:54, 26 February 2011 Iteration (hist) [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...")
