Life as an emergent phenomenon: studies from a large-scale boid simulation and web data
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- Takashi Ikegami
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguroku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Yoh-ichi Mototake
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
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- Shintaro Kobori
- University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Mizuki Oka
- University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- Yasuhiro Hashimoto
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguroku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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<jats:p>A large group with a special structure can become the mother of emergence. We discuss this hypothesis in relation to large-scale boid simulations and web data. In the boid swarm simulations, the nucleation, organization and collapse dynamics were found to be more diverse in larger flocks than in smaller flocks. In the second analysis, large web data, consisting of shared photos with descriptive tags, tended to group together users with similar tendencies, allowing the network to develop a core–periphery structure. We show that the generation rate of novel tags and their usage frequencies are high in the higher-order cliques. In this case, novelty is not considered to arise randomly; rather, it is generated as a result of a large and structured network. We contextualize these results in terms of adjacent possible theory and as a new way to understand collective intelligence. We argue that excessive information and material flow can become a source of innovation.</jats:p><jats:p>This article is part of the themed issue ‘Reconceptualizing the origins of life’.</jats:p>
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- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375 (2109), 20160351-, 2017-11-13
The Royal Society