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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.")

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 ...")