I have noticed that often more men are interested in Agent Based Modeling than women while more women are interested in Biomimicry than men. I am wondering why this is? I would like to put out this question to others.
Both ABM and Biomimicry have much to offer. To me Agent Based Modeling takes a very distant view of dynamic processes, like a five mile high view. This allows a broader view and greater scope. Individual behavior becomes a matter of probabilities. Biomimicry on the other hand is a whole mind body empathic, sympathic, compathic relationship with living beings as species and individuals. By copying or mimicking living beings, probabilities are not required because copying existing life behavior and physical properties is highly specific in design. While vast, the number of possible design solutions is bounded by what can live. What can live also contains an ethical dimension that grounds and precepts possibilities. In Agent Based Modeling the death of individuals or groups is abstracted to be expressed as parameters emerge and recede within the model. To a large extent, in Biomimicry the death of a species or individual life is the ultimate determinant of which biological qualities to mimic. I sense that the Agent Based Modeling approach with its roots in western mathematics carries forward some of the difficulties and even cul de sacs of western intellectual life and philosophy. Like imposing platonic solid forms on the world, there are important similarities that are revealed-a common language developed for qualities of the physical world. But no individual contains or expresses these qualities except in often large and varying degrees of approximation. It can be said that these entities like platonic solids and other mathematical systems such as Agent Based Modeling are not alive nor more importantly cannot live. Of course to this extent they cannot die either which has its benefits. It seems to me that we need a deeper integration of approaches that are outside the body but return to reside in the living and in the living body. I would like to propose a SapphoSocratic approach. But I will leave this for another message since this one has become rather long already. Ann Racuya-Robbins Founder and CEO World Knowledge BankR https://www.wkbank.com/knowledge/Agent_Based_Modeling_and_Biomimicry https://www.wkbank.com <https://www.wkbank.com/>
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