*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, May 24th, *14:00-16:00 p.m *Place*: *Room 3B217 * (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! ------------------------------ * Simulating the Global Brain with MATLAB* *Evo Busseniers (GBI VUB) <[email protected]>* Abstract: This talk will present a computer simulation, done with Matlab, of the challenge propagation model. This model was presented last week by Francis Heylighen in this series. The basic idea is that you have a network of agents which propagate challenges to each other and try to relax them. In the first part of the talk I will talk more about how I've implemented this. There are different possible variations of the model, for this I have implemented *styles*. There can be different styles of processing or sending challenges, of updating the network,... Further on there are a lot of parameters which play a role. For example the learning rate of the links, the percentage of challenges that get send,... In the second part I will discuss some results of the simulation. There is a lot to explore because of the big amount of input and output. My main criteria was to look how much the distributed intelligence increased. I first varied only one parameter to see whether this confirmed our hypotheses. Afterward I explored the parameter space some more. I also checked the topology of the evolved network, and tried to find out which kind of agents connect to each other. References: Heylighen F., E. Busseniers, V. Veitas, C. Vidal & D. R. Weinbaum. Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain: architecture, components, and specifications <http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/TowardsGB-model.pdf> (GBI Working Paper 2012-05) ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* *Summer 2013* * May 27 (Monday) *Clement Vidal <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com>(GBI,VUB) PhD Defense: The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective <http://scan.me/54qlz1> * May 31 *Marko Rodriguez <http://markorodriguez.com/> Faunus: Cluster-Oriented Graph Analytics <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/206> * June 7 *David Garcia Collective Emotions in the Internet Society * June 14 *Pierpaolo Andriani Modular Exaptation - Research policy <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/203> * June 21 *Wolfgang Hofkirchner Global consciousness – the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society * June 28 *Clement Vidal <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com>(GBI,VUB) Distributing Cognition: from Local Brains to the Global Brain * July 5 * *NO SEMINAR * *July 12 *Marie-Lise Schläppy <[email protected]> (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne) Are all gifted people also highly sensitive? <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/204> 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
