Jessica Flack @EMERGCOMP

Once again and as I have said a thousand times NO ONE has permission to use me as perpetrator bait via audio, video, or ‘more covert’ surveillance in my home, car, in hotel rooms, or by accessing, manipulating, censoring, or controlling in any way my social media accounts or…

Murray had eight doctoral students (according to Wikipedia) and from him and them came some of the 20th centuries most important work in physics, work that quite possibly will also underlie some of the 21st centuries most important, generative work in science. Five of his…

Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION

5 years ago

Murray had eight doctoral students (according to Wikipedia) and from him and them came some of the 20th centuries most important work in physics, work that quite possibly will also underlie some of the 21st centuries most important, generative work in science. Five of his… https://t.co/QR4b3UFrvQ

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The entropy transition that occurs during hourglass emergence potentially underlies an 'information-theoretic channel switch' (from micro-macro to macro-macro), extending Shannon's theory of information as uncertainty reduction (or surprise) to account for Weaver's semantic and…

Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION

5 months ago

The entropy transition that occurs during hourglass emergence potentially underlies an 'information-theoretic channel switch' (from micro-macro to macro-macro), extending Shannon's theory of information as uncertainty reduction (or surprise) to account for Weaver's semantic and…

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For years at the Institute I put forward the idea of entropy transitions but my point was lost to retorts about degrees of freedom and the definition of lossy compression so I set about developing a language to describe these transitions myself. In addition to entropy…

Wheeler, who cites Wiliam James in his it-from-bit article (link below), wanted to know how a vision of one world arises out of the information-gathering activities of many observer-participants. Essentially about collective computation, it's remarkable to think this question…

One deeply generative implication of work on collective computation in nature is the possibility of a theory of computation that underlies both biology and physics (and consequently also applies to 'artificial' intelligence) and in which biology is not, as is usually assumed,…

How can visualzations of the Universe be improved? How might we determine if a timespace portal has been opened + what role did George Cowan play in making me curious abt this question? These + other questions are discussed in new posts on Babel Blog. jessicaflack.wordpress.com/blog

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@EMERGCOMP Does the Universe have a shape and if so what is its geometry? What relation do nebulae bare to one another? How does the internal geometry of the Universe inform its overall topological structure? Are these questions specific to cosmology or with the right lens do they apply to…

Foundations of computation in nature + AI In listening to comments about my work, a clarification is again in order. My goal has always been to understand how nature computes. My starting point was strongly optimizing (not necessarily optimal) or adaptive systems—in other words…

Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION

4 months ago

Foundations of computation in nature + AI In listening to comments about my work, a clarification is again in order. My goal has always been to understand how nature computes. My starting point was strongly optimizing (not necessarily optimal) or adaptive systems—in other words…

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Wheeler, who cites Wiliam James, wanted to know how a vision of one world arises out of the information-gathering activities of many observer-participants. Essentially abt collective computation, it's remarkable to think this question could unite physics + biology + even AI. 1/n

This paper was precipitated by a May 2022 Cooperative AI Foundation (@coop_ai) panel discussion (the first of two I've attended organized by this group) on Wolf's work on collective cooperative intelligence. The project and paper—developed over two years, with PNAS accepting it…

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Under what conditions does collective intelligence improve individual as well as societal welfare? Answering this question requires taking seriously complexity of individual and collective behavior, yet most rigorous work—in the service of conceptual and mathematical…

D.H. Lawrence on emergence. From a collection of his poems, "Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing," published in 1982.

Spent the morning reading in the winter sun Gallop’s translation of Parmenides’ (~475BC) poem on nature. Parmenides proposes time is an illusion + the world is changeless but that perception + opinion—though deceitful— matter, at least to mortals, + allow for a 1/4

Happy Birthday to John Wheeler. For a collection of foundational papers in complexity science published last December, I wrote an article from the POV of collective computation in nature on the implications of Wheeler's idea that 'it emerges from bit' through what he called…

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

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Happy Birthday to John Wheeler. For a collection of foundational papers in complexity science published last December, I wrote an article from the POV of collective computation in nature on the implications of Wheeler's idea that 'it emerges from bit' through what he called… https://t.co/XfmqiJWtSJ

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Thinking this morning about parallels between equations + poems. The em dash is one device for conveying nonlinear relationships, capturing abstract concepts, + making synergies stir in writing. What are some others?

Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION

5 years ago

Thinking this morning about parallels between equations + poems. The em dash is one device for conveying nonlinear relationships, capturing abstract concepts, + making synergies stir in writing. What are some others?

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There is an important distinction between doing science to accumulate knowlefge + advance understanding and using that understanding to intervene and engineer.

Murray and Jim Hartle together in Murray's institute office. Jim and Murray had an ongoing quantum cosmology collaboration, which brought Jim frequently to Santa Fe. Several years ago Jim and I, with others, co-organized an institute workshop on the arrows of time. Photo…

Social complexity: Social power is the degree of agreement in a group an individual can use force successfully..but the actual use of force implies the absence of power. A distinction made elegantly by one of the great scholars of power--Robert Bierstedt. tinyurl.com/y9exybo5

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The original cathedrals are found in nature. Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley, 1872 Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870 Both by Hudson River School painter Albert Bierstedt. @metmuseum mymodernmet.com/hudson-river-s…

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