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Hi Dante-Gabryell, Thanks for posting this, it looks very promising
as support for my <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lipKokm5-A&feature=youtu.be">psyCommons</a>
take on P2P relationships.<br>
Denis<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/07/2014 18:41, Dante-Gabryell
Monson wrote:<br>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Francis Heylighen</b> <span
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Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:28 PM<br>
Subject: My review paper on Stigmergy<br>
To: "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group" <<a
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>That also means there will still be time to submit
corrections,
if need be: so, if anyone has any feedback, please let me
know!</div>
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<div>Francis</div>
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<div>Heylighen, F. (2015). Stigmergy as a Universal
Coordination
Mechanism: components, varieties and applications. To
appear in T.
Lewis & L. Marsh (Eds.),<i> Human Stigmergy:
Theoretical
Developments and New Applications</i>, Studies in
Applied Philosophy,
Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer.</div>
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<div><b>Abstract</b>: 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.</div>
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Francis Heylighen <br>
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group<br>
Free University of Brussels<br>
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