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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:35:53 +0100
To: joslyn@lanl.gov (Cliff Joslyn)
From: nasrudin@primenet.com (Brian Dolan) (by way of Francis Heylighen)
Subject: PRNCYB application
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>Dr. Heylighen
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>I have been attempting to send in a membership form to Dr. Joslyn, but
>there seems to be some sort of error. I know you are an editor of the
>prncyb-l list, and was hoping your could forward this to him. The address
>I have is:
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>cjoslyn@bingsuns.cc.binghamtom.edu
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>but that seems not to respond. Thank you for your time.
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>>actual form impersonated :)
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>>Name: Brian Dolan
>>e-mail: nasrudin@primenet.com
>>url: www.renfield.com (not a cybernetics site)
>>postal address: 18637 Strathern St.
>> Reseda, CA, U.S.A
>> 91335-1252
>>phone: 818.757.1147
>>heard about PCP through web.
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>>research:
>>As an undergrad, I have no original research to speak of. It is difficult
>>enough to find research positions in the U.S. involving cybernetics, but
>>even more so as an undergrad. I do have ambitions for research in several
>>areas, however.
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>>Dr. John Holland has demonstrated that selection can be seen essentially as
>>a mathematical process. Systems making decisions about their environment,
>>and, in biological cases, decisions about procreation are shown to follow
>>broad but effective models. More specifically, the outcome of thousands of
>>such decisions can be predicted using Dr. Holland's models. His models seem
>>to simulate the evolution of natural systems under non Hardy-Weinberg
>>situations. (The only situation actually observed) Of course, at this
>>stage, the envirounment cannot be too complex, but that is likely to change
>>as new advances in mathematics allow us to better simulate them.
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>>Properties such as emergence and self-organisation are the result of the
>>evolution or adaptation of a system. One system interacts with another
>>under some manifestation of stress and a meta-system is born with emergent
>>properties. Extremely fascinating are meta-systems such as Dr. Ghadari's
>>organic auto-catalysing molecules which have only ONE emergent property;
>>it's own cataylisation. More complex emergent behaviour like the social
>>stratification of ant colonies and the extremely complex neural activity
>>involve many specific new behaviours. Viewing the simpler situations may,
>>however, allow cyberneticists to understand behaviour like intelligence more
>>deeply.
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>>Much of the research currently being done in cybernetics takes a simulation
>>approach, and this has generated many important advances in the field. It
>>seems to me that there is still a need for the paper-and-pencil scientists
>>like mathematicians and biologists to help take the field further. It is my
>>aim to fill that role. As a student mathematician and student biologist, I
>>am hoping to work directly in the field contributing observations of natural
>>systems with a mathematical acumen. As my education increases, I am sure my
>>focus will narrow. I look forward to becoming affiliated with the PCP in
>>order to help me both further my education and gain inspiration from those
>>already professionally involved in the field.
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>>Brian Dolan
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