05 / October 6

Young Slime Life

“Cells that fire together, wire together.”
— Folk saying

Topics

Swarm v. Slime Dynamics: Agent v. Swarm v. Protean Ooze; David Roden and Posthuman Life; Karen Barad, Agential Realism; Polybius by Sinneslöschen, Nitro Zeus; cyberkinetic/rumor warfare; Frank Rosenblatt and the Perceptron; Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert’s Perceptrons; Scalars, Vectors, Decision Trees, Entropy splits

Readings

Eric Bonabeau et al.

from Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems

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Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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Scott Benzel

Notes on Polybius by Sinneslöschen, Nitro Zeus

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Additional Reading

Ben Woodard, from Slime DynamicsMinsky and Papert, from Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry

Lab

Particle systems, Unreal Engine, others