Ken Lloyd wrote: > Specifically, if an ANN can recognize a coupling pattern in a network that > gives rise to synergistic behavior which is congruent with similar coupling > patterns in other networks - it has abstracted a new patterned, second-order > rule (meta-rule). > Sure, one could imagine using an ABM to study when meta-rules increase synergistic interactions vs. the kinds of situations where dropping them into a population only disrupts an evolved ecology. The answer is probably of the form `it depends'. An example that comes to mind was the damage done by bringing western agricultural practices to Bali.. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8186.html
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