Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display accumulative variance?
If you were to design one to do that, would it have a structure comparable to populations of organisms living in ecologies? -In case anyone's curious I have a high quality direct measure of accumulative variance. Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Henshaw > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:30 PM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: [FRIAM] nature walks! > > > > I am dually impressed at Amazon's ability to know what > undergarments it's random visitors might be advised to > try....:) (just marvelous!) but still I have some questions > about reality 101. > > If molecules in thermal motion follow random walks, do fluids composed > of molecules in thermal motion do so as well? I've run into the > strangest confusion among Darwinian theorists, both from > journals of paleontology and evolutionary biology. I have a > quite good paper that's unpublishable because I stick my neck > out to say populations have no non-extraordinary mechanisms > for changing by random walks. > > a) am I wrong and there are some? a.1)clue me in.. > b) do you know a journal for people literate in evolution > theory that might be willing to consider the issue based on > physical mechanisms? > > > Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 680 Ft. Washington Ave > NY NY 10040 > tel: 212-795-4844 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > explorations: www.synapse9.com > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
