Hi Dante-Gabryell, Thanks for posting this, it looks very promising as
support for my psyCommons
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lipKokm5-A&feature=youtu.be> take on
P2P relationships.
Denis
On 26/07/2014 18:41, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:
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From: *Francis Heylighen* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:28 PM
Subject: My review paper on Stigmergy
To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>,
Global Brain Discussion <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Here is the paper on stigmergy I just sent to the editor of a book for
which it was invited. It is an update with some additional sections of
an older working paper.
It now provides a pretty clear and comprehensive review of the whole
stigmergy concept and its implications. It should provide a standard
reference on the topic, if anyone needs a good citation on stigmergy.
It will just be a while more before we have the detailed publication data.
That also means there will still be time to submit corrections, if
need be: so, if anyone has any feedback, please let me know!
Francis
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Heylighen, F. (2015). Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism:
components, varieties and applications. To appear in T. Lewis & L.
Marsh (Eds.),/Human Stigmergy: Theoretical Developments and New
Applications/, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and
Rational Ethics. Springer.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/papers/stigmergy-varieties.pdf
*Abstract*: The concept of stigmergy has been used to analyze
self-organizing activities in an ever-widening range of domains, from
social insects via robotics and social media to human society. Yet, it
is still poorly understood, and as such its full power remains
underappreciated. The present paper clarifies the issue by defining
stigmergy as a mechanism of indirect coordination in which the trace
left by an action in a medium stimulates a subsequent action. It then
analyses the fundamental components of the definition: action, agent,
medium, trace and coordination. Stigmergy enables complex, coordinated
activity without any need for planning, control, communication,
simultaneous presence, or even mutual awareness. This makes the
concept applicable to a very broad variety of cases, from chemical
reactions to individual cognition and Internet-supported collaboration
in Wikipedia. The paper classifies different varieties of stigmergy
according to general aspects (number of agents, scope, persistence,
sematectonic vs. marker-based, and quantitative vs. qualitative),
while emphasizing the fundamental continuity between these cases. This
continuity can be understood from a non-linear, self-organizing
dynamic that lets more complex forms of coordination evolve out of
simpler ones. The paper concludes with two specifically human
applications in cognition and cooperation, suggesting that without
stigmergy these phenomena may never have evolved.
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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