Kybernetica.com > Cognitive Cellular Automata

Brain Hammer[Brain Hammer] I focus on questions concerning what the physical precursors were to the earliest evolved versions of intelligent life. I discuss how cellular automata might constitute an experimental platform for the exploration of such issues, since cellular automata offer a unified framework for the modeling of physical, biological, and psychological processes.

Previous [Previous] Simple artificial life program source code...

Next [Next] Constructing Life Creates Questions of Ethics...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Online Papers in Philosophy[Online Papers in Philosophy] January 30, 2008: please cite published version.) I argue that, contrary to common theory and practice, we should distinguish between possessing certain decision-making capacities and having the status of a competent decision-maker. Sometimes, a person has value commitments that we ought to respect, but that also interfere with her decision-making capacities;

[Sujai Kumar] Self-organizing Traffic at a Malfunctioning Intersection: This paper takes a slightly different tack and describes what happens at an intersection where the traffic signals are malfunctioning and stuck in some configuration. By modelling individual vehicles as agents, we were able to replicate the surprisingly organized traffic flow that we observed at a real malfunctioning intersection in urban India.

The Unreasonable Manhttp://www.unreasonableman.net/2007/04/diigounreasonab.html [The Unreasonable Man] Diigo->Unreasonable 04/17/2007: Breve Artificial Life. Beginner's Guide to Molecular Biology. How do we Sequence DNA? Mappy Plug In. APOD: 2004 April 1. Akiyoshi's illusions. iWork: iCal, Address, etc integration. 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense ...

Louis J. Sheehanhttp://louisjsheehan.blogstream.com/v1/pid/285999.html [Louis J. Sheehan] revival: In the 1980s, however, a new generation of archaeologists, including Joseph Alexander “Sandy” MacGillivray, a Montreal-born scholar at the British School at Athens, began questioning many of Evans’s assumptions. Smaller-scale versions of Knossos have turned up at nearly every Minoan settlement across Crete, and scholars now suspect there was no single king but rather many independent polities.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, ,