Steve writes: < "But when and how do we force the system into an anarchist mode of exploration?" I don't know the term off the top of my head, but I think there is one which fits a similar role to that of annealing (both in materials science and computer simulation) where the dimensionality is "pulsed" or "phased". >
With quantum annealing, one distinguishes between the energy of the problem (goodness, defined somehow) and the energy of a transverse field which is used to conduct the search for solutions. The two are different axes of angular momentum. When the transverse field is high, proposition are both true and false, when it is low they must be true or false. One can perform this procedure from things that are true or false toward things that are true and false or the vice versa. The anarchist in this metaphor turns up the x axis amplitude like the Men in Black would activate their Neuralyzers. Classically, one might turn up the temperature to get propositions bouncing between true and false at different rates. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
