[P2P-F] Fwd: My review paper on Stigmergy

Sun Jul 27 09:38:44 CEST 2014

Hi Dante-Gabryell, Thanks for posting this, it looks very promising as 
support for my psyCommons 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lipKokm5-A&feature=youtu.be> take on 
P2P relationships.
Denis
On 26/07/2014 18:41, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:
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> From: *Francis Heylighen* <fheyligh at vub.ac.be <mailto:fheyligh at vub.ac.be>>
> Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:28 PM
> Subject: My review paper on Stigmergy
> To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group" 
> <evolcomp at listserv.vub.ac.be <mailto:evolcomp at listserv.vub.ac.be>>, 
> Global Brain Discussion <gbrain at listserv.vub.ac.be 
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> Here is the paper on stigmergy I just sent to the editor of a book for 
> which it was invited. It is an update with some additional sections of 
> an older working paper.
>
> It now provides a pretty clear and comprehensive review of the whole 
> stigmergy concept and its implications. It should provide a standard 
> reference on the topic, if anyone needs a good citation on stigmergy. 
> It will just be a while more before we have the detailed publication data.
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> That also means there will still be time to submit corrections, if 
> need be: so, if anyone has any feedback, please let me know!
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>
> Francis
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> Heylighen, F. (2015). Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism: 
> components, varieties and applications. To appear in T. Lewis & L. 
> Marsh (Eds.),/Human Stigmergy: Theoretical Developments and New 
> Applications/, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and 
> Rational Ethics. Springer.
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/papers/stigmergy-varieties.pdf
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> *Abstract*: The concept of stigmergy has been used to analyze 
> self-organizing activities in an ever-widening range of domains, from 
> social insects via robotics and social media to human society. Yet, it 
> is still poorly understood, and as such its full power remains 
> underappreciated. The present paper clarifies the issue by defining 
> stigmergy as a mechanism of indirect coordination in which the trace 
> left by an action in a medium stimulates a subsequent action. It then 
> analyses the fundamental components of the definition: action, agent, 
> medium, trace and coordination. Stigmergy enables complex, coordinated 
> activity without any need for planning, control, communication, 
> simultaneous presence, or even mutual awareness. This makes the 
> concept applicable to a very broad variety of cases, from chemical 
> reactions to individual cognition and Internet-supported collaboration 
> in Wikipedia.  The paper classifies different varieties of stigmergy 
> according to general aspects (number of agents, scope, persistence, 
> sematectonic vs. marker-based, and quantitative vs. qualitative), 
> while emphasizing the fundamental continuity between these cases. This 
> continuity can be understood from a non-linear, self-organizing 
> dynamic that lets more complex forms of coordination evolve out of 
> simpler ones. The paper concludes with two specifically human 
> applications in cognition and cooperation, suggesting that without 
> stigmergy these phenomena may never have evolved.
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> -- 
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> Francis Heylighen
> Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
> Free University of Brussels
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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