What you have here is a phenomenon which has been described a lot for 50 years. It appears in the literature in the descriptions of the synchronous behaviour of crickets, cicadas and fireflies.
Eg: D. E. Kim, "A spiking neuron model for synchronous flashing of fireflies," Biosystems, vol. 76, pp. 7-20, 2004. V. Nityananda and R. Balakrishnan, "Synchrony during acoustic interactions in the bushcricket Mecopoda 'Chirper' (Tettigoniidae : Orthoptera) is generated by a combination of chirp-by-chirp resetting and change in intrinsic chirp rate," Journal of Comparative Physiology a-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology, vol. 193, pp. 51-65, Jan 2007. I. Stewart, "The synchronicity of firefly flashing," Scientific American, vol. 280, pp. 104-106, Mar 1999. S. H. Strogatz and I. Stewart, "Coupled oscillators and biological synchronization," Scientific American, vol. 269, p. 102, 12 1993. and there is a classic book A. T. Winfree, The geometry of biological time. New York: Springer Verlag, 1980. -------- Such ideas are currently being used (mathematics thereof) by two people 10 feet from me, who are working on epilepsy prediction and detection. What you have realised, however, is the fact that neural networks (which is exactly what the garden lights behaviour capture, albeit primitively) /are identical to a form of (multidimensional/dynamic) cellular automaton/. What you have demonstrated is precisely what I am doing to create an AGI. The killer question: When might it be 'like something' to 'BE' a collection of such objects behaving dynamically? (or "what might it be like to be an entity inside a cellular automaton?") Nice one! cheers colin > Hello! > > I invite to check my idea of a *home made complex self-organizing system:* > ** > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEWUTl_OcI > > > Greetings!! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
