[FRIAM] Do you know? Do 'swarms' follow random walks?

[Phil Henshaw]

Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display accumulative
variance?

If you were to design one to do that, would it have a structure
comparable to populations of organisms living in ecologies?

-In case anyone's curious I have a high quality direct measure of
accumulative variance.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Phil Henshaw
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:30 PM
> To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
> Subject: [FRIAM] nature walks!
> 
> 
> 
> I am dually impressed at Amazon's ability to know what 
> undergarments it's random visitors might be advised to 
> try....:) (just marvelous!) but still I have some questions 
> about reality 101.
> 
> If molecules in thermal motion follow random walks, do fluids composed
> of molecules in thermal motion do so as well?   I've run into the
> strangest confusion among Darwinian theorists, both from 
> journals of paleontology and evolutionary biology.  I have a 
> quite good paper that's unpublishable because I stick my neck 
> out to say populations have no non-extraordinary mechanisms 
> for changing by random walks.
> 
> a) am I wrong and there are some?   a.1)clue me in..
> b) do you know a journal for people literate in evolution 
> theory that might be willing to consider the issue based on 
> physical mechanisms?
> 
> 
> Phil Henshaw                       ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 680 Ft. Washington Ave 
> NY NY 10040                       
> tel: 212-795-4844                 
> e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
> explorations: www.synapse9.com    
> 
> 
> 
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