Comments on: Levels of Organization

By: Cancer as a Complex Adaptive System « The Emergent Fool

Cancer as a Complex Adaptive System « The Emergent Fool — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:55:59 +0000

[...] ourselves that “level” is a convenient but not quite accurate concept, and they are not always clearly distinct and non-overlapping, as in this [...]

By: Ray Foster

Ray Foster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:10:02 +0000

Stimulating and thought provoking content. Thanks for organizing this site for persons interested in complex adaptive systems.

By: Superfoo « Complex Adaptive Systems

Superfoo « Complex Adaptive Systems — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:23:30 +0000

[...] “levels”, I refer you back to my original post on levels, especially the last section titled “Level’s Aren’t Strict”. As I see it, [...]

By: Superorganism and Singularity « Complex Adaptive Systems

Superorganism and Singularity « Complex Adaptive Systems — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:04:11 +0000

[...] myopic and anthropomorphic. The definition above focuses on the individual agents at the current level of organization, namely humans and also their technological [...]

By: The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism « Complex Adaptive Systems

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:46:49 +0000

[...] considered when developing new medical interventions (6). When considering multilevel systems, the higher organizational level often dominates, suggesting that benefits at the higher level should be a priority—thus the need to focus more on [...]

By: Encoding Life’s Complexity « Complex Adaptive Systems

Encoding Life’s Complexity « Complex Adaptive Systems — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:29:52 +0000

[...] behaviors, and also the power of recursively applied (i.e. fractal) computation at different levels. Living systems leverage these same principles. One of the baffling aspects of living systems is [...]

By: Response to “Thoughts on Ants, Altruism and the Future of Humanity” « Complex Adaptive Systems

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:13:05 +0000

[...] that begat multicellularity. As you point out however, even if we do emerge to a higher level of organization, this does not necessarily mean good things for the individual human. Historically it seems that [...]

By: Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems

Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:37:25 +0000

[...] Samantha Power talked explicitly about this referencing a “higher consciousness”. See levels of organization and cultural agency. Counterpoint theme: The Failure of the System to protect its individual [...]

By: Evolution & Emergence « Complex Adaptive Systems

Evolution & Emergence « Complex Adaptive Systems — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:07:06 +0000

[...] criticality) are not the same thing. Evolution is the process of change within a particular level. Emergence is the creation of a new level of organization through the coming into existence of one [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:34:45 +0000

Suggested readings: Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky: A series of short essays on how intelligence can emerge from collections of interacting agents. Cambrian Intelligence by Rodney Brooks: An easy to read accounting of Brooks's subsumption architecture (where higher levels of behavior inhibit lower levels) and the results he and his students achieved with it. My graduate advisor developed the Spacial Semantic Heirarchy . This is another heirarchical structural design that is biased for spatial navigation.