Title :
Autocreative hierarchy II: dynamics self-organization, emergence and level-changing
Author :
Cottam, Ron ; Ranson, Willy ; Vounckx, Roger
Author_Institution :
Evolutionary Processing Group, Brussels Free Univ., Belgium
fDate :
30 Sept.-4 Oct. 2003
Abstract :
Natural systems are characterized more by the way they change than by their appearance at any one moment in time. There is, however, no self-consistent theory capable of ascribing the development of living hierarchical organisms to conventional scientific rationality. We have derived a generic model for the dynamics and evolution of natural hierarchical systems. We present the resultant birational dynamics which may be attributed to a real hierarchy. We describe the nature of self-organization and of emergence in hierarchies, and the rationality which may be employed to move between scalar levels. We propose the use of diffusely-rational recursive Dempster-Shafer-probability to model inter-hierarchical-level complex regions, and consider its implications. The evolution of living from nonliving systems is attributed to a change in the style of emergence which characterizes the appearance of new scalar levels.
Keywords :
artificial life; ecology; living systems; self-adjusting systems; uncertainty handling; conventional scientific rationality; diffusely-rational recursive Dempster-Shafer-probability; dynamics self-organization; generic model; inter-hierarchical-level model; living system; natural hierarchical system; nonliving system; resultant birational dynamics; self-consistent theory; Bones; Cultural differences; Hierarchical systems; Holography; Organisms; Quantum mechanics; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2003. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7958-6
DOI :
10.1109/KIMAS.2003.1245134