Ron -
Steve,
Do you have a link to your 2001 paper on Collective Intelligence?
Can't google it.
By the way, are you acquainted with Norman Johnson, late of LANL?
Two questions, one answer! (with a self-correction... 1998, not 2001, I
don't know what I put in my coffee this morning! Certainly not my daily
dose of Aracept!).
/Symbiotic Intelligence: Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed
Networks Driven by Human Interaction (1998)//- Norman L. Johnson ,
Steen Rasmussen , Cliff Joslyn , Luis Rocha , Steven Smith ,
Marianna Kantor
/http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.5068
ftp://wwwc3.lanl.gov/pub/users/joslyn/ALife6_LANL.pdf
Norm honcho'd this one with an ensemble cast... he and I still talk once
every year or so. It was a bit of a survey paper in some ways, though
we did develop a simple discrete model for illustrative purposes.
I was semi-active in Heylighen's Gobal Brain stuff at the time... and
had just read George Dyson's "Darwin Among the Machines" (because I was
a fan of his escapades in "The Starship and the Canoe" and of his
sister's (Esther) work) and was trying (futilely) to keep track of and
model the growth of the Internet (mostly WWW) as part of my day job.
The collective/symbiotic intelligence stuff is kind of what I took up
after drifting out of the ALife world and after the Cellular Automata
world. Everyone needs a hobby.
- Steve
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