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The "proliferation wisdom" process set of creativity

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Posted by: Tara Krause

In reading the recent post of cancer researcher, Gershom Zajicek, it sparked in me a new look at irreducibility and creativity and process grammars. I have excerpted his post below mine.

He restates irreducibility but in a thought-provoking non-trivial way: His CA has two genes {initial condition, rule}. The behavior is the “proliferon wisdom,” the process set which we cannot yet express mathematically but can only be observed.

Could we apply this proliferon wisdom to creativity at criticality? What is the proliferon wisdom of creativity in its capability to attain a solution when driven by demand?

Let’s change the word "demand" to "needs". What are the needs underlying the “solution,” defining solution as creative behavior? The observable end-state is the creative result.

The initial condition is Leyton's shape memory. The rule encompasses Leyton's super-local unfolding.

Can we learn new rules such that the CA’s process set moves from being class 2 (nested symmetries) to class 4 (asymmetry)?

Tara

Excerpt below:

http://forum.wolframscience.com/sho...d=5571#post5571

“Emergence

The CA has two genes. {initial condition , rule}, represented by two numbers {1 , 600}. You plant a zygote or a number one, represented by a square and it emerges into a CA. Emergence depends on the space in which CA exist. The two genes inherited from CA to CA are the blueprint of CA life, yet lack any information how the CA phenotype will emerge. The first experiment displays CA with different genes (rules). The system presented here consists of two interacting CA called proliferon.

Emergence is an unpredictable process. The zygote with its two genes does not reveal to us (observers) how it will evolve. Despite its simple structure CA behavior is unpredictable. Its trajectory is computationally irreducible and may be outlined only by observation. Nevertheless as a whole the proliferon is predictable. It always approaches and settles at an end-point. It always attempts to maximize its resources, yet the manner how it maximizes is unpredictable. Observing its behavior we conclude, that the proliferon “knows” something which we are unable to express mathematically. In order to find out how the proliferon reaches its end-point we have to observe its behavior all the way. This proliferon wisdom is called here Wisdom of the Body (WOB)"

"WOB has two meanings. 1. The set of processes in the proliferon. 2. Proliferon wisdom, or its capability to attain a solution when driven by demand. The wisdom is in the process set. In the broader context of the organism, WOB sustains life.”




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