What you have here is a phenomenon which has been described a lot for 50
years. It appears in the literature in the descriptions of the
synchronous behaviour of crickets, cicadas and fireflies.
Eg:
D. E. Kim, "A spiking neuron model for synchronous flashing of
fireflies," Biosystems, vol. 76, pp. 7-20, 2004.
V. Nityananda and R. Balakrishnan, "Synchrony during acoustic
interactions in the bushcricket Mecopoda 'Chirper' (Tettigoniidae :
Orthoptera) is generated by a combination of chirp-by-chirp resetting
and change in intrinsic chirp rate," Journal of Comparative Physiology
a-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology, vol. 193, pp.
51-65, Jan 2007.
I. Stewart, "The synchronicity of firefly flashing," Scientific
American, vol. 280, pp. 104-106, Mar 1999.
S. H. Strogatz and I. Stewart, "Coupled oscillators and biological
synchronization," Scientific American, vol. 269, p. 102, 12 1993.
and there is a classic book
A. T. Winfree, The geometry of biological time. New York: Springer
Verlag, 1980.
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Such ideas are currently being used (mathematics thereof) by two people
10 feet from me, who are working on epilepsy prediction and detection.
What you have realised, however, is the fact that neural networks (which
is exactly what the garden lights behaviour capture, albeit primitively)
/are identical to a form of (multidimensional/dynamic) cellular automaton/.
What you have demonstrated is precisely what I am doing to create an
AGI. The killer question: When might it be 'like something' to 'BE' a
collection of such objects behaving dynamically? (or "what might it be
like to be an entity inside a cellular automaton?")
Nice one!
cheers
colin
> Hello!
>
> I invite to check my idea of a *home made complex self-organizing system:*
> **
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEWUTl_OcI
>
>
> Greetings!!
>
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> >
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