Presentations:8minutes+2forquestions

• (10points)Whatisyourquestion/hypothesis/model?– whyisitinteresting/whydidyouchooseit/whatdoesittellusaboutCAS?

• (10points)Whatwereyourcomputational,experimentalandstatistical/analysismethods?Focusonimportantmethodologicalchoicesyoumade.

• (20points)Whatwereyourmostinterestingresults(focusonyourprimarypoint(s)butifyouifyouhavethem,aninterestinganecdotecanbeincluded).Focusonthemostimportantoutcomewhichisnotnecessarilywhatyouspentmostofyourtimeon.– Showfigures,backupwithstatistics– Ifyoudon’tyethaveresults,whatresultsdoyouanticipate?– Ifpossible,showademo(suggestscreencaptured videoratherthan,orasbackupfor,

runningalivedemo)

• (5points)Summarizeyourmainquestionandyourconclusion.Youcanincludeaninterestingnextstepifyouhaveonebutitisnotrequired.

• (5points)forvisualandspokenclarity

Whatwastheworld’smostdebatedquestioninApril2015?

Whatcoloristhisdress?

Automaticpre-consciousassociations:numbers,colors,smells,letters,sensations..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Areyouasgoodasyourbrainthinksyouare?

Inabilitytogetonwellwithothers,85%putthemselvesabovethemedian,and25%ratedthemselvesinthetop1%.

Fordrivingskill,93%oftheUSsampleand69%oftheSwedishsampleputthemselvesinthetop50%(abovethemedian).Forsafety,88%oftheUSgroupand77%oftheSwedishsampleputthemselvesinthetop50%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

Yourmemoryinfluencesyourperceptions

Thebasicideabehindtop-downperceptionisthatthecorticalareasinthebrain (the“top”)formexpectationsbasedonexperiencethatcanalterthesenseorgans(the“bottom”)processesresponsiblefor incominginformation.

whenfacedwithperceptuallapses,orlossofsituationalawareness,yourexpectations(basedonpriorlearning)fillinthegaps

Brian Arthur, Complexity Economics

“Economies are organic and evolutionary...actions and strategies constantly evolve,structures constantly form and re--form…individual behaviors react to the pattern theytogether create.”

Stanislas Dehaene• Experimentalfindingsimplythatmostofthebrain’s

computationscanbeperformedinanon-consciousmode,butthatconsciousperceptionischaracterizedbyanamplification,globalpropagationandintegrationofbrainsignals.

• HecallsthistheGlobalNeuronalWorkspace

BrainsasCAS

• Ourbrainsdomostoftheirworkwithoutusbeingawareofit

• TuringmachineorBayesianmachine?• Deheane:

consciousthoughtiswhatoccursinthe“globalworkspace”composedof100billionneuronsmakingBayesianinferencesThewholeiscomposedoftheparts.Thewholetellsthepartshowtofunction.

Turingdeliberatelydesignedhismachinetomimic“amanintheprocessofcomputingarealnumber”(ashewroteinhisseminal1936paper).

He…couldrelyonlyonhisintrospection…hismachinecapturesonlyafractionofthemathematician’smentalprocesses,thosethatareconsciouslyaccessible.TheserialandsymbolicoperationsthatarecapturedbyaserialTuringmachineconstituteareasonablygoodmodeloftheoperationsaccessibletoaconscioushumanmind.Dehaene,Stanislas (2014-01-30).ConsciousnessandtheBrain:DecipheringHowtheBrainCodesOurThoughts

RelatetoMitchell’squestions:WhatisinformationHowisitprocessedWhatconstitutesmeaning

A fine-grainedparallelsystemisabletocarryoutwhatDouglasHofstadterhascalleda“parallelterracedscan.”Thisreferstoasimultaneousexplorationofmanypossibilitiesorpathways,inwhichtheresourcesgiventoeachexplorationatagiventimedependontheperceivedsuccessofthatexplorationatthattime.”Mitchell,Complexity:AGuidedTour

ComparetoantsinacolonycellsinabodycellsinadensityclassificationCA…

AntFugue,DouglassHofstadter

• http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-11-prelude-ant-fugue.html

IamaStrangeLoopDouglassHofstadtertriesagaintoexplaintheimportanceof

understandingselfreference

• Thisstatementisfalse– Thissentencemakesaclaimaboutitself

• Yourbrainiscollectionofneuronsthatmakeclaimsaboutthemselves.Andthentheyrespondtothoseclaimsaboutthemselves…andtheydothisallthetime.Wecallthisconsciousthinking.

• Yourneuronssaytoyourbrain,Iseeevidenceforblue,andevidenceforwhite.Yourbrainsaystoitsneurons,you’reinbrightsunlight,sowhatyouseeiswhite.Theneuronssayok,whatIseeiswhite.

• “IAmMyBrain’sMostComplexSymbol”

Yourbrainbuildsamodeloftheworld

…andconvincesyouthatit’sreal

Relateyourbrainsmodeloftheworldtoothermodelswe’vestudied

Yourbrainbuildsamodeloftheworld

Howishumansocialityanewevolutionarytransition?

• Haveallthereallyimportantdiscoveriesbeenmade?

• Describe1-3mostuseful/thought-provokingormeaningfulconceptsfromCAS

• Describe1-3least

• Whatarethecomponentsof,orbestapproachestodiscover,ofaunifiedtheoryforcomplexsystems?

• Whatconceptualtoolsaremissing?

• Agreeordisagree?“Iseesomeformofcomplexitysciencetakingoverthewholeofscientificthinking.”