e-mail about effect of environment entropy on complex adaptive system entropy

2013-12-01

azim58 - e-mail about effect of environment entropy on complex adaptive
system entropy

I had an idea after our discussion about how to model how the entropy of
the environment affects the progression of entropy in a complex adaptive
system. I don't think I have to hard-wire any type of "desires" into the
complex adaptive system. In other words, it doesn't have to have
hard-wired rules to become more complex. It could just become complex
based on simple underlying rules. I could just use one of the Class IV
complex cellular automata from Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science.
One of the complex parts from this cellular automata would represent the
"organism" whose entropy could be calculated. Then I would take that
pattern ("organism") out of the environment of black and white squares
that it is in, and I would place it into different types of environments
of black and white squares with different entropies. I could then analyze
how these changes in environment entropy cause the pattern to thrive or
die out to nothing (just all white or black squares and lose it's
intricate pattern) over many time steps.

One issue about this idea is that I would prefer to think of and
visualize systems as networks rather than black and white squares.
However, it looks like people have already performed work representing
cellular automata as networks as seen here

http://www.wolframscience.com/conference/2006/presentations/materials/noche
lla.pdf
and
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4509

Just some thoughts.

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