[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

[Phil Henshaw]

Markus,
One way would be to program them to recognize the environmental lines of
conflict with other independent agents (like when diminishing returns
indicate a shared resource is becoming contested perhaps), as some form of
primitive consciousness of the things existing outside their self-awareness.
Phil
> 
> Ken Lloyd wrote:
> > Would it be more interesting to ask - What if in second order ABM's
> the
> > agents could differentiate meta-rules (as patterns) from rules? Could
> they
> > then apply them using evolutionary meta-genetics as a means serving
> as
> > abstraction?  Would this work in n^m-order ABM's?
> >
> An agent notes the prevailing behaviors and/or wisdom in its vicinity,
> and then `abstracts' that?
> What makes it an abstraction and not just an imperfect copy?  Sometimes
> (often?) the whole is less than the sum of its parts...  Simulations
> along these lines could address questions like the impact on a
> population from meta rules and communication vs. agents living in
> ignorant bliss.
> 
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