*Please distribute to others who may be interested...* You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO) and theGlobal Brain Institute<http://www.globalbraininstitute.org/>(GBI).
*Time*:* Friday, October 26th, *14:00-16:00 p.m *Place*: *Room E.3.02* *Building E, 3rd floor, room 02 on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), * Free entrance: everybody welcome! ------------------------------ Modular evolution and adaptation in complex systems *Prof. Peter Csermely * *(LINK-Group, Semmelweis University, Department of Medical Chemistry ** [email protected]**)* Abstract: Our multidisciplinary group (www.linkgroup.hu) uses networks as ‘highways’ making the transfer of concepts between various disciplines. This allows the utilization of the ‘wisdom’ of biological systems surviving crisis events for many billions of years. The community structure of the protein-protein interaction network of yeast cells became more condensed upon stress. However, vital inter-community bridges were maintained and novel inter-community bridges were formed (PLoS Comput. Biol. 7, e1002187<http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002187#pcbi.1002187.s001>). Community reorganization emerged as general and novel systems level way of cost-efficient adaptation and evolution. Inter-community, highly dynamic ‘creative nodes <http://www.linkgroup.hu/docs/08tibs.pdf>’ not only determine the systems potential for fast adaptation, but also serve as a ‘life insurance’ in crisis. This is highly similar of the role of creative, gifted people in society. Creative transitions are served by an increased flexibility of the complex system. In other words: flexibility-increase increases the learning potential of the system. However, an ‘over-flexible’ system will not have a memory, and will unable to keep changes. An increase in system rigidity increases the memory storing ability of the system. Alternating changes of flexibility and rigidity emerge as a highly efficient optimization strategy of evolutionary changes. ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* *Winter 2012-2013* *** November 2 * Academic Holiday no Seminar * November 9 * *Rob van Kranenburg<http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/rob-van-kranenburg> * *The Internet of Things - a proactive approach<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/188> * * November 16 * Henri Waelbroeck <[email protected]> The financial market as an algorithmic “global brain” – <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/192> a view from the field of market impact modeling <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/192> *November 23 * TBA * November 30 * *Juho Salminen <http://lut.academia.edu/JuhoSalminen> *(Lappeenranta University of Technology) SuperCrowdsource Me <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/196> * December 7 * *Joël de Rosnay <http://www.derosnay.com>* TBA * December 14 * *Ben Goertzel <http://wp.goertzel.org/?page_id=58>* General Artificial Intelligence and the Global Brain * December 17 (Monday) * Johan Bollen <http://informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/Home.html> (Indiana University) TBA More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum
