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A critical phase transition in bee movement dynamics can be modeled using a 2D cellular automata
Ivan Shpurov, Tom Froese
The collective behavior of numerous animal species, including insects, exhibits scale-free behavior indicative of the critical (second-order) phase transition. Previous research un…
Untapped Potential in Self-Optimization of Hopfield Networks: The Creativity of Unsupervised Learning
Natalya Weber, Christian Guckelsberger, Tom Froese
The Self-Optimization (SO) model can be considered as the third operational mode of the classical Hopfield Network, leveraging the power of associative memory to enhance optimizati…
Beehive scale-free emergent dynamics
Ivan Shpurov, Tom Froese, Dante R. Chialvo
It has been repeatedly reported that the collective dynamics of social insects exhibit universal emergent properties similar to other complex systems. In this note, we study a prev…
On the use of associative memory in Hopfield networks designed to solve propositional satisfiability problems
Natalya Weber, Werner Koch, Ozan Erdem +1
Hopfield networks are an attractive choice for solving many types of computational problems because they provide a biologically plausible mechanism. The Self-Optimization (SO) mode…
Scaling up the self-optimization model by means of on-the-fly computation of weights
Natalya Weber, Werner Koch, Tom Froese
The Self-Optimization (SO) model is a useful computational model for investigating self-organization in "soft" Artificial life (ALife) as it has been shown to be general enough to…
Measuring entanglement in material traces of ritualized interaction: Preferential attachment in a prehistoric petroglyph distribution
Tom Froese, Emiliano Gallaga
Prehistoric rock art is often analyzed predominantly as the product of artists intentions to create public representations of their perceptual experiences and mental imagery. Howev…
Levels of Coupling in Dyadic Interaction: An Analysis of Neural and Behavioral Complexity
Georgina Montserrat Reséndiz-Benhumea, Ekaterina Sangati, Tom Froese
From an enactive approach, some previous studies have demonstrated that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the dynamics of neural and behavioral complexity of embodied…
The distribution of inhibitory neurons in the C. elegans connectome facilitates self-optimization of coordinated neural activity
Alejandro Morales, Tom Froese
The nervous system of the nematode soil worm Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits remarkable complexity despite the worm's small size. A general challenge is to better understand the re…
Neural coordination can be enhanced by occasional interruption of normal firing patterns: A self-optimizing spiking neural network model
Alexander Woodward, Tom Froese, Takashi Ikegami
The state space of a conventional Hopfield network typically exhibits many different attractors of which only a small subset satisfy constraints between neurons in a globally optim…
Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: A minimalist virtual reality experiment
Tom Froese, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Takashi Ikegami
Scientists have traditionally limited the mechanisms of social cognition to one brain, but recent approaches claim that interaction also realizes cognitive work. Experiments under…
Motility at the origin of life: Its characterization and a model
Tom Froese, Nathaniel Virgo, Takashi Ikegami
Due to recent advances in synthetic biology and artificial life, the origin of life is currently a hot topic of research. We review the literature and argue that the two traditiona…
The Dynamically Extended Mind -- A Minimal Modeling Case Study
Tom Froese, Carlos Gershenson, David A. Rosenblueth
The extended mind hypothesis has stimulated much interest in cognitive science. However, its core claim, i.e. that the process of cognition can extend beyond the brain via the body…