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"... are potentially widespread characteristics of complex adaptive social systems" https://t.co/tSm8JxubHd https://t.co/hCArvukdKy


"framework allows one to study […] networks that evolve over time […] multiplexity […] and have multiple scales"https://t.co/xTSocsn4XV

"field of computational social science is attracting mathematically inclined scientists in ever-increasing numbers." https://t.co/9wBYVGzbsH

This whole systems thinking thing is pretty cool. https://t.co/aS9Jg5BblS https://t.co/qHqFqPEDIY


Manifesting the God Lobsterhttps://t.co/jymlfApnXY(This tweet is purely for my own posterity for when I look up weavrs and lobstrs)

Academic Insanity. I think I want to get a PhD.https://t.co/0bf1ImWrh4


Using ACO to simplify Bayesian models: https://t.co/n7mS0Sjxrx https://t.co/xojOnLcZd5


Using ACO to simply complex networks (and interesting application of that algorithm):https://t.co/JLttaIWZzk

Answer 6 years later: Statistical illusions due to Bayesian errors / information disparity? https://t.co/2smkpM1J3Phttps://t.co/D8992oUjbN

I could be completely wrong => but trying to figure out if it holds nets really intersting papers: https://t.co/v5CRQpow5N by @PaulVerschure

Makes me wonder what kinds of 'logical fallacies' machine learning / modern AI makes if applying to random data. https://t.co/7ySar6EqY8


"evolved to use the same computation [...] radically different machinery"https://t.co/d8cFJUP536 via @_BirdMachine https://t.co/WXMtBFAqjE


Do variations in resource density affect strategy of a colony?:https://t.co/g3zyfzyqh1Now: compare colony's social structure/network.

"Q-learning to work well when the inputs are RAM states has been unexpectedly challenging." s/challenging/fun/https://t.co/5xkmyZ4OTY

"What even is human cognition?"https://t.co/krN3m5yZL2

"Can one have internal intelligence without external intelligence?"https://t.co/CuS3fylfh1 https://t.co/HkC3k8cBMH


“This is where you get the saying that ‘Neurons that fire together, wire together,’ ”https://t.co/x32WRzzZnF

Visual illusions an intrinsic aspect of deep learning? Nature does this all the time, it's why camouflage works. https://t.co/Nzi5n8clTq

The map of gradients is not the territory of images, it's only an aproximation. Lossy compression leads to aliasing.https://t.co/1FbJ2oQR29 https://t.co/raZjnlr76I


Some ants can technically pass the mirror test. I've decided that the test is meaningless.https://t.co/Upgic2vr9H https://t.co/Ne6xXZyLlI


"Tool use is seen as something brainy primates and birds do, but..." #antshttps://t.co/Kxza6qVcBJ (via @MADinMelbourne)

"There are these highfalutin theories, but give me one that will let me build something."https://t.co/Se2OMW3891 https://t.co/ZOrQJ9D4ZN


Speed accuracy trade off you say? A swarm of stationary bees buzzing the vote in just under the timer. Aha! moment. https://t.co/5YLHg2DSdB https://t.co/2QYpgLBOYL


"phase coupling between sensors may reflect networks of communicating neuronal populations" #Beehiveiorismhttps://t.co/1znq0AxVkK

"...it is helping to bring the biological study of the brain closer to the philosophical study of the mind."https://t.co/pFHs51NMos

"No matter what function we want to compute, we know that there is a neural network which can do the job."https://t.co/GdmWr6RwBU

Lol, they're just figuring this out?https://t.co/66ycOxji5n (h/t @singularityhub)The replays in their sleep is a Bayesian network reformulating itself.https://t.co/0oBCxPRDeU

Whispers softly: reading that paper from 1995 and making a joke about it.https://t.co/E9KnOMN3Qi

My random references to "the aha moment" are directly reffering to failures in the hippocampus related to processing new memories.https://t.co/SRfBdF8KNH

the ripples in slimemold colony help it simplify it's exploration network in the same way that ants hone in on efficient paths. Apply this to brain networks, reframe exploration as novelty. TADAH! #beehiveiorism theory in a nutshell.https://t.co/U7HoeGxmCh

"Like all living organisms, slime moulds have built-in biochemical oscillators, like the human body clock. In other kinds of slime mould, these oscillators can create periodic ripple patterns in response to environmental stress, helping the organism coordinate its movements."

I may be having fun and and exploring weird ideas, but i'm not just playing around.https://t.co/dOldypJ17R

“the rhizome resists chronology and organization, instead favoring a nomadic system of growth and propagation.” https://t.co/TW7Dm5WuUV

The internet is rhizomifying our collective culture. https://t.co/YpchoveX0u https://t.co/kZ94XVtcAn


Are Genes a kind of Rhizomes?Can you model genes as networks of information?Networks as Meta-Theory of life.https://t.co/d5HOPZMx6D

if we can answer that, it becomes a Curry–Howard correspondence from math->logic->computation->biology->brainshttps://t.co/8Z0aAjDJTC

Sensor networks in nature, but modeled as Rhizomes?https://t.co/NjJA4nvW2w

I can hardly remember a time when networks, emergence, swarms, and DNA hasn't been on my mind... This was from 2007:https://t.co/dzj1Dv5jGS

"If the parts [...] are largely cooperative and whatever conflict there was has been controlled, that’s an organism" https://t.co/98ga5VMWKE


@JoanStrassmann & @DQueller = awesome.https://t.co/BXo10Xpvp6 https://t.co/QRKXIu4b4T


“the reason for the failures is primarily the fact that they have not been embedded in systems thinking” https://t.co/TmOqTeSA93

Want to model the human brain? Start with semantic networks. Maybe use JSON-LD?https://t.co/O13dnYY14E

I want to meet Hofstadter. I think he understands.https://t.co/I43YfCK5ao https://t.co/85EpKiFGPx


What did Einstein do for those 18 years?https://t.co/I43YfD1G1W https://t.co/TmuPs3poim


How do we find analogies in semantic networks?: Ants solve for the shortest path... Compression is search problem!https://t.co/nXXW0Nlb76

"are struck not by their depth and profundity, but by their banality and obviousness."https://t.co/BqCBiHCzoz https://t.co/ibCDq8R0Jb


"Computation with SNAGs has never yet been exploited in conventional computers, but we are hoping to use it." https://t.co/Mlw75DRE3V

@NehanivCL which is why I tweeted that article out. I think there's a connection with swarm intelligence: https://t.co/pm6SYveHVg

"based on frequency of words and them computed similarity between documents"https://t.co/FFgnyVkcdU https://t.co/Qahtb2zFjm




"concept of an evolving “network” of RNAs being required to kick-start life, rather than a single selfish entity" https://t.co/YfEPDn5ZNo


"more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing"https://t.co/0yD7uSRRZ5 https://t.co/OYP7ml8gYX


Rethinking using jSON-LD; a better fiting format could be in one of these 1000+ citations of Vector Semantics model: https://t.co/Rxpgy4r5d4

For the record, when I refer to self-similarity...This: https://t.co/s6K33YKAA8

"This idea is very much worth testing further..."https://t.co/YO4OaXb55I https://t.co/n7OpPJ3rzn


Bubbles and honeycombs, but information networks: Small world networks maximize connectivity, minimal connections. https://t.co/twaO3DRRck

"Using percolation theory, we can study the robustness of a network and predict the critical percolation threshold"https://t.co/D8GQmXfY5D https://t.co/aLn3EGMkj7


"Nobody thought about about it, nobody connected these two ideas until Einstien" — #Hofstadter https://t.co/TXyEQxrDPV


Been thinking about this for a while.https://t.co/oS4B9SRKs4 https://t.co/zeGtCngZDq


“If you find it hard to believe that something so tiny could have a complex brain, you're not alone.” https://t.co/kUl2YGIaYz

"Löb’s Theorem:A functional pearl of dependently typed quining" https://t.co/AA7BDguqZJ via @writingcapital https://t.co/Hd18x9sY8H


This idea, it keeps coming up. Are networks Turing Complete?https://t.co/9Kp7ChRPb1

"The philosophy of computation meaning, mechanism, mystery" via @Meaningness's latesthttps://t.co/gQfqUeVOji

"... understood the desire to probe deeply and to find oneself where no one had yet been." https://t.co/mToNW1JwrP https://t.co/YlpbutAk4D


Computing with shotguns.Shooting chaos at voids.Canceled noise floors.Bouncing god rays.Fluidic Echos.Harmonic.https://t.co/imoGmhUcmB https://t.co/PYvnSxjCih


Emergencehttps://t.co/ytAwgsk50e

"intertwinkle filamental structure" — @JasonSilva drops a #hofstadter word blend at 0m34s: interlinking + twinklehttps://t.co/bmDIwNZC4P

"presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature."https://t.co/ioLVkM5U54 https://t.co/6cif1cNsAS


"you'll find that it's fun to think about these things, and that response is part of the problem."https://t.co/XqjNf5OPL4

"It's bizarre, and I don't have any easy way to say what's right or wrong."https://t.co/CFUQxzpmFdhttps://t.co/tEhWPiioX8

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."https://t.co/I0WEneRZZehttps://t.co/Gtqf5h2CbZ

The moment you realize @SamHarrisOrg is discussing about summoning the #GodLobster [ https://t.co/1hQ1vYqUZl ]https://t.co/59j1uQl6tE https://t.co/EqhRW9SChO


"A.I., machine learning, deep learning; and quantum computing [...] And finally, why simulations matter..." https://t.co/G9ZSCytLJb

Why simulations matter...https://t.co/Fi8TGvbkEc


Are you listening?https://t.co/fDDRAekmBw

... to what is being whispered?https://t.co/w7eT0SClCr

Does DNA, within the cells, that make up the ants, realize they are part of a larger colony's intelegent behavior? https://t.co/LPhOGYvoNi

"ultimately to discover the neural basis for whatever this unique capacity is & that's a very hard problem to study" https://t.co/GXQOKcTKqx

Do ants play? Darwin thought so. And why not?"ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies"https://t.co/uqqLG6dANr https://t.co/hBC2AccnMa


"The way the brain builds the now." by @davideagleman https://t.co/ovM0ApnmLI(via @bobirakova) #LongNow20

"...can fail in ways that don't fit human error patterns — and in ways we won't expect or be prepared for." @zeynephttps://t.co/C1uH5mnOfs

Popular AI is focused on the brain like they are something special.Ants have brains… I want to make an ant colony.https://t.co/tc0f3sSL5z

"This inversion has some quite profound implications."https://t.co/Pk57JrNyBS https://t.co/uDFmIh2Fts


"what do we have that no other animal has? A remarkable number of neurons in the cerebral cortex"https://t.co/GL9fFlXgL1 https://t.co/Mb1HhBt3b0


#beehiveiorism "the chance to explore, under controlled conditions, the origin and evolution of animal societies"https://t.co/sAornY2lG2 https://t.co/CN0I4XE0nE


"It is, of course, naïve to assign a simple scalar to a being’s capacity for consciousness"https://t.co/76KyTafhiN https://t.co/9Bz6VVuOGI


Braess's paradox + small world networks in brain: article wrong, not forgetting, restructuring for efficient recall? https://t.co/dFLzmGoKP0 https://t.co/9zDf0fRUjK


Basically, offline updating of Bayesian models of utility in a 'lazy' manner, because our brains are expensive: https://t.co/DnfYIuvzWG

Slow wave sleep patterns, actually the hive in your head restructuring itself? Sleep norms are weird, not universal.https://t.co/LZNR8I9qsT

I'm perfectly fine building philosophical zombies out of ants & paperclips.I'll call them walkers - sleep walkers.https://t.co/ICknhPglWl https://t.co/FZbdhqLeLI


Ratchet"Kullback-Leibler Divergence is a Lyapunov function for the Replicator Dynamic" https://t.co/ulCe5YM9A2 https://t.co/Suh8t2ysZm

Something something distributed sensor networks collective cognition.I did say I wanted to make an ant colony, no?https://t.co/rqD2fXYKhf https://t.co/C5GZdLKC87


Will work on this for a basic income:https://t.co/5TaZCnRgVq

"If your goal is to understand the brain, you have to understand behavior, and that’s not trivial."https://t.co/syrYnmZ9K9

Gossip is how the hivemind ratchets thru collective priors.https://t.co/tchWXhhFjP

Slow march of progress:lobsters ->rats ->robots ->monkeys ->flying land lobsters known as bees.🐝#beehiveiorismhttps://t.co/49bmFGrzTj

"Randomized controlled trials are designed for the average patient, but most of our patients aren’t average."https://t.co/nUwmWJDDPC

If you are trying to build an AI in a box, that box better have a damn good simulation of reality within it.https://t.co/TCLdhcifEk https://t.co/SlUy21ELz2


So much complexity is a result of agents situated in an environment.https://t.co/OxxBXg6pcD

I'm not just talking hot air here:https://t.co/ZBQNAPVNxT https://t.co/dkSzkYRM1Y


Does that RoboSumo thing sounds neat?Wait till you see what @shanecelis has been building out as a video game...https://t.co/7mMl0XBkQl

I figured it out.https://t.co/phf8iCmRmU

This, but the robots (actually simulated physics entities responding to energy by changing shape) are culled by evolutionary forces.https://t.co/Uc8Qt4MWEIBraitenberg meets B.E.A.M.https://t.co/pjNw3ixFol

Prove this wrong by showing that ant colonies are effectively a form of embodied computing using their environment. https://t.co/ScR7AF7HVH

"find hidden experts -- those who may not have many connections, but strongly influence other opinion leaders."https://t.co/Ourm0AbAaV

"Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?""It's good to be curious, about many things""Make Believe"https://t.co/QNxbkZHrhM


Worried that you might be lulled into harvesting baboon organs? Substitute the appropriate 'narrative'.https://t.co/qkTM2dOtKC

Ant's distributed/collaborative sorting algorithm in nutshell:"Does this smell of poo? No? Maybe food goes here."https://t.co/SpfzaPe7F3

Information processing all the way down."Efficient simulation of finite automata by neural nets"https://t.co/I6VcYkpDKa

"an endless succession of beautiful fractal patterns by iterating simple maps and ordinary differential equations"https://t.co/dRvdFBSVoV

Gradients all the way down. https://t.co/bqmCUIAfaP

Lifeforms, climbing mount improbable, to escape their poop.https://t.co/9qFnC1aMcF

Social signaling behavior has come a long way:https://t.co/6Gqa6rK2iL

That being said all the excess emotional charge around the election season is basically giving my network a seizure. https://t.co/5OxT7uxyRa

Lifeforms, climbing mount improbable, to compute.https://t.co/jRrWk2exyp

Tweets are like PoW for trust bonds between users. Meme familiarity & effort subdues instinct against sybil attacks?https://t.co/fPKEMaL3IT

If tweets act as a PoW to avoid sybils but rep is relative to group memes; rep is local, combinatorial? Frenemies.https://t.co/cClduuZjtb

Gradients in the environment?Stigmergy in action at the cellular level.Stigmergy based cognition? #beehiveiorismhttps://t.co/qbKggCsl52

Problem with 99% of evolutionary algorithms: they don't act on group. No reputation/info processing networks emerge.https://t.co/oddqzQifoc

Every AI system I've seen since gradeschool assumes the goal was to make an agent smart. Loses forest for the trees.https://t.co/vjNOA2hDmP

"Bring on the singularity"https://t.co/dKyxsSYqbd

I saw the first direct evidence of my echos rippling thru my twitter networks today via nuzzle's app.related:https://t.co/J4kVPgeNV2

Do rhizomes smile when they notice they aren't alone?https://t.co/kZXBwg7f2h

"They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."https://t.co/QHx5zIswmH

"the potential [...] is huge. That’s because the network, like the brain, doesn’t separate processing and memory"https://t.co/IGD6WvK63O 🕸️

"Neuromorphic atomic switch networks align their own innate structural complexity with that of the phenomenon they are modeling." https://t.co/de60PbBN4C


Artificial Tulpa Machinehttps://t.co/a5MRIWzbSg

"People have built computer models of networks that achieve some critical state. But this one just sort of did it all by itself"#archillect https://t.co/x268Un4Lsu


What amazing pencils we have built, we children of slime and sand.A pencil that can remember a shape, is a hand. https://t.co/IMQKNLdEeV

Modeling as a system bottle-necked by power.Universal to: meat cognition & stigmergic processes thru scent density. https://t.co/4xcB7hziuD

Recreating modesl of reality from sparse signals by a process extrapolating from compressed forms?https://t.co/2mKuoaKtLI (h/t @glowcoil) https://t.co/qFYU2gDXQG


Reversible computing? Whats that?https://t.co/5yYkue3ic1 https://t.co/GitXHQKVU3


Overlapping thought - mental boundaries of metaphor. Compressed competing ideas bubble up from a subterranean hive.https://t.co/e7X8Z6KG42

The transport networks as a sufficiently advanced network;Models of reality for more efficient resource extraction?https://t.co/UNKgzojICx

"the most important problem to solve was how to get things through it: how to make it permeable enough to be useful"https://t.co/5Rwsj8MfMP

Lossy compression networks.https://t.co/UXn8bpJndI


"collective endeavour that relies on many Giants, from very different fields, that will all need to work closely"https://t.co/33FxsKww07

Grounding semantics in perceptual modalities, What's that?https://t.co/GMGgR0L67Nhttps://t.co/PQd6h6ZA19

Douwe Kiela's thesis cite's the thesis of my first year roommate at college. https://t.co/wt9fDxYKcw who sparked my interest in ant systems.

Why am I interested in his works? They're making communicating agents.https://t.co/ZY1ynezT2J https://t.co/Bxys1xOYDE


And they're doing it in a way that is exactly how I think all of this whole brain to brain communication works.https://t.co/AuSkIzdXlf

I set a google alert on Douwe Kiela & Brent's work... not 20 days later a paper is published tying psycholinguistics and computational linguistics using the same details as I saw in Hofstadter's language ideas. https://t.co/wqIO5CEvvd


I don't have the words to describe my abstract theory: of meta-linguistics as a collaborative system that projects meaning onto the world as a way of building knowledge and feedback with the environment.https://t.co/rQpqW2AsoH

Why isn't this obvious to other people? https://t.co/iQ1qy2jSxB


Patterns of language as an evolutionary networks.https://t.co/WKM8nocUIX

When minds become a loop.https://t.co/WE265uIcUH

Language evolves like any complex network.https://t.co/xpKz0xVcUuhttps://t.co/K0CmXjkdNmEcosystemshttps://t.co/pQDzp12lS4Even has mass extinctions.https://t.co/qoG2BPDWIH

Narratives evolve like any complex network?https://t.co/x7cU5DvgAw

Compressing networks.https://t.co/5you3EohsSJürgen Schmidhuber on the rules of the universe.https://t.co/Lk1kUzH04A

The mess we're in.https://t.co/r1Ov3V6pTj

Haha, Jürgen Schmidhuber is considered "the father of modern Artificial Intelligence" and I had no idea. I just found his stuff because I was trying to find evidence for my idea on curiosity based on novelty exploration in ants.https://t.co/t8nNiXmY3O

Did you know that the #cataglyphis desert ant encodes 0.22 bits of information every time it bumps into another ant? https://t.co/IhcrnvG4Dk

Why do languages evolve? Because they necessarily can't contain everything - they must be tweaked to adapt to the needs at hand.https://t.co/kJKmFG5cPe

Words evolve via a ratcheting process of imprecision and long-winded explanations down to precise words. Take on forms of "idio jargon" understood among groups.https://t.co/H6RkMKAyq7

Idio jargon... what's that mean again?https://t.co/tDj2is4Uno

The embodied language of thought. Poetry.https://t.co/LeqjnCdEMa

Wittgenstein's whispers at the boundary of the Chinese room thought experiment. Projections of selfhood due to the illusion of consciousness.https://t.co/GbTuJuzo66https://t.co/wX43JpeOhT


I'm not real.https://t.co/JDOZHX2Ry8

Amphibolic Narratives are best narratives.When is a foot also a flipper?Am I giving you a hand, or my finger? https://t.co/s4zIJL4Hv6

@ultimape self-note on the origin of weak signals notion: https://t.co/DUDHKSqg9z

Intelligence as adaptation to environmental feedback?https://t.co/Ui3fDXtUKm

75 page thesis starting with thermaldynamics & ending with deep learning. https://t.co/VDlFm3FYR6 Via @insurrealist https://t.co/vB16REpZ7y


The idea that intelligence is a byproduct of the universe seems obvious, but the devil is in the details.https://t.co/t3YVbK1TD9

"a fascinating history of visualizations, and a look into humanity's urge to map what we know."https://t.co/W0LmDkUju2

When a post on productivity makes you question the purpose of life itself. https://t.co/IlizyIN94V only on @ribbonfarm https://t.co/wkskdnQtHJ


"work remains to be done before we have a unified “thermodynamic” theory of animal aggregations […] well on our way"https://t.co/nPQoYuXGdN https://t.co/otDcqlGSI8


"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat?"https://t.co/QHx5zIswmH

"survival, exploration, attention and curiosity […] Build this first."via @ActsOfPotentialhttps://t.co/4Lo3rbjKOa https://t.co/tj6r9L0Ksk


Latches, all the way down.https://t.co/vy3RJD4AM6 https://t.co/gzW96ya49s


"…real tragedy would be if people forgot that you could have new ideas about programming models in the first place."https://t.co/OooQ6vxZIt https://t.co/pva9ED99d5


I think minds are abstract & computation may exist outside of the 'brain' through embodied cognition. So maybe?https://t.co/0EFnc6h3UH

Wilson: Ants"And how the brain is like a colony of ants" 2014https://t.co/4bUWQo3dxz

"To make scientific headway in a topic as tangled as consciousness, it helps to clear away some red herrings."https://t.co/Ie4tJvsGZb https://t.co/XncWRyMLKG


Fucking dendrites, how do they work?https://t.co/UrXtlZSBrv

Bro, do you even cross link your emotional affect in swarm oriented network storage mediums for decomposing later?https://t.co/D2UBvxObIE

When you've spent a lot of time talking up #beehiveioism & you realize that Tim O'Reilly was there before you: 🐜 https://t.co/mvJAGqHQYA


An evolved networks of information is a map.https://t.co/eJBJNeIqQq

MAPPING THOUGHThttps://t.co/LtsyOpkb9a https://t.co/Pucl2HePT0

38,000 tweets is to many to blog. I should map this.https://t.co/DUDvg69349

Why would anyone ever wanna map their own thoughts?https://t.co/l5UeET1V3S

Some ants have been theorized to use Lookup tables in their mental maps of navigation.A Bee's navigation primitives was turned into a NN and put in a drone.Indexes are information compression. They figured out how to apply this principle to databases.https://t.co/En2ofYmNkK

There's a meta-principle here that not many people realize.It is all computation.https://t.co/l72M5j4JCT

Ant colonies are a form of embodied computation. But computation none-the-less.https://t.co/IdGPgI252i

They're just compressing information about their environment so they can store abstractions of it to use later.https://t.co/fHyEhz8im3

Your brain compresses information while you sleep.https://t.co/ks1We6GfCv

Why does the brain wave? Path optimization via pruning. The cells that don't respond are reaped by Glial cells.https://t.co/9i0e5T1WCe

Brains that aren't used will shrink.https://t.co/bpJl08ppb0

You are a walking bag of thinking meat, and some of the meat is trying to eat other parts of the meat.https://t.co/OwedtGbQXA

Desert ants generate maps of their environment.And they are good at it.https://t.co/GYcCDispDchttps://t.co/eRMlXlLPGg

Why aren't you more interested in bees and ants than you are now?https://t.co/hq60Ayzn9y (h/t @LChittka) https://t.co/OOPIagYtEM


And not, I don't mean that "ant colony optimization" thing that everybody in compsci completely misunderstands. I mean real ants.https://t.co/QnnwB59Etj

Maps as lossy compression networks?https://t.co/jLwvhl4ubw