On 03/19/2013 07:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > do you have any references I could follow? The "Twitch Ontology" would > be new to me (excepting what you just wrote). It felt as if it > explained human behaviour as an automaton, but obviously more than that?
No references. As far as I know, I made it up. 8^) I'm sure I've stolen it from somewhere, though. If I were to cite anyone, it would be Lima de Faria and "autoevolution". But it's also inspired by autopoiesis. And there's a good dose of this mixed in: http://www.gprolog.org/manual/gprolog.html#htoc342 I think I began thinking this way back in college when I eavesdropped on an argument between a physics and a chemistry major who were arguing about what "absolute zero" means. Sorry for not being a "scholar". I've long lamented my inability to keep track of where I get ideas. I wouldn't say it attempts to explain human behavior as automata. It's more an assertion that there is really only 1 source of all the variety we see around us, the impetus to fill/explore a space. I haven't yet decided if it's a categorically different thing that the rest of matter/energy. Human (or any, including quantum foam) behavior is just an artifact of the twitch sampling a constrained space. The constrained space has properties, including being more or less dense in various dimension. The denser the space, the more options/points the twitch has to explore. >> So, there are no types of twitch, there is only twitch. That doesn't >> imply any sort of determinism. In fact, it might argue for >> nondeterminism. > I like to distinguish determinism from predictability. If I understand > your concept of twitch, there is no choice to be made, but the outcome > of coupled, cascading twitches (actors acting interactively?) can only > be determined by running the twitching simulation forward? That's right, there is no choice to be made. However, the twitch might sample the space randomly or by some determined algorithm. I don't know. -- glen =><= Hail Eris! ============================================================ 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
