Emergence Biology 361 = Computer Science 361 Bryn Mawr College Spring 2007

Agent based modelling plus? ... motivations and directions

Making agents that can explore/infer Jessica Billings Heather Fetting Natsu Fukui Mansi Gupta and Shikha Prashad Sam Kaplan Rob Koropkin Rob Koropkin, revised Lauren Maksym Alex Moser and Frank Alvarez Alex Moser and Frank Alvarez, revised

Agents capable of exploring, inferring, creating expectations

• movement, perhaps with randomness
• changed by interactions with world
• intentionality? abduction? intentional choice? free will?

The human brain as as an array of interacting agents, capable of induction, deduction and ... abduction? intentional choice? free will?

Perhaps not because of numbers of interacting agents but because of nature of interactions, bipartite architecture?

Can we make agents capable of "story telling", and hence of abduction, of creating things that go beyond what has been experienced, be creative? And get them to interact?

Can we both account for and influence culture?

Can such agents emerge in the absence of an architect/designer?

Your thoughts on "From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond"?


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