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Fixed Action Patterns and Cellular Automata

Posted in Computers, analysis of behavior, automata, cellular automata, data mining, decision theory, economics, tagged , , on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It appears likely that cellular automata, even elementary CAs, can model Fixed Action Patterns.  This is a potential area of study for me.  However, my gut suggests this won’t be all that interesting in of itself.  Now by cobbling together a handful of Fixed Action Patterns in the form of a CA model we might get [...]

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No Absolute Knowledge?

Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, politics, science, time, tagged , , , , on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

 
and more where that came from here.
and even more to investigate. (not Bronowski)

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Walden Two Communities

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, tagged , , , on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In further research (yes, me sidetracking), I found these two communities based on BF Skinner’s Walden Two and radical behaviorism concepts – an experimental analysis of behavior approach to building a community.
Los Horcones
and
Twin Oaks
Pretty neat real world experiments of behaviorism world views.  Very cool.
These were located at the bottom of this summary of behaviorism.

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Sidetracked By Tools

Posted in analysis of behavior, science, tagged , , , , , on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A reflection on what happens so much in technology, science and, even, art.
In technology we get “sidetracked by [our] tools–like a sculptor who spends all day sharpening her chisels but never sets one to marble, or a novelist who spends all day fiddling with the fonts in his word processing program.” – from a piece [...]

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