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Emergence 2009: Langton's Ant I

Emergence 2009: Student NetLogo Models

Emergence

Biology 361 = Computer Science 361
Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2009

 

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Langton's Ant variants

Evan R.: Rotator01

Evan R.: NoAnt

Pseudo Non-determinisim in NetLogo

Determinism and Non-determinism in NetLogo
NetLogo is designed to mimic a parallel processing system, although it is fundamentally a serial processing one. For example, when a set of agents are asked to run a command, the agents must be sequentially asked because they cannot be asked simultaneously. This feature of NetLogo can be used to illustrate deterministic processes as well as to mimic non-deterministic ones.

Day 7--On Working Analogously

On Working Analogously


Evolution as Story III

Evolution as Story III
10 Feb 2009 (PG)


Switch in story telling style from non-narrative foundational to narrative foundational to emergence

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Evolution as Story II

Evolution as Story II
3 Feb 2009 (PG)



Adaptive diversity can result from undirected variation and "selection" (= differential persistance, regardless of intent)

Day 5--"Near-Sighted Visionaries": On Beyond Versus

I. on being lost?
finding the forum?
logging in before posting?
(read through Chapter 8 for Thursday's small group discussions....)



This course differs from Newsweek
in offering "and" rather than "or" relations
--on the question of Lincoln's and Darwin's relative greatness;
--on the question of the relative "worth" of
science and humanities, biology and literature
(applied in departmental mtg. last week!); and
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Evolving science/science education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 2:51pm

Several years ago, I wrote an essay on science and science education (Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising), partly in response to a student who had heard/read some of my thoughts in class and wrote in 2003 ....

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"Institutional thinking" and "thinking for one's self": finding common ground

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 12:31pm
In the 27 January 2009 New York Times, columnist David Brooks writes
"I thought it worth devoting a column to institutional thinking because I try to keep a list of the people in public life I admire most. Invariably, the people who make that list have subjugated themselves to their profession, social function or institution."
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Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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