[FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Frank Wimberly wimberly3 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 13:20:31 EDT 2021


I found this to be helpful.  The dual space of a vector space must be an
instance of this category theory concept of dual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(category_theory)


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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:04 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Could be.  But isn’t it obvious that writing a CA in some imperative
> language requires less hand wringing?    What is the payoff?   So much of
> this stuff ends up coming across as “Look you can do the thing you already
> knew how to do!”  What can I do that I couldn’t do before?
>
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Barry MacKichan
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 8:52 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development
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> Aha! I think the exercise here was to come up with a categorical statement.
> —Barry
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> On 25 Oct 2021, at 10:19, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> It is hard to find the motivation to invest much in category theory when
> the practical considerations are left as an exercise to the reader.
>
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