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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Adaptive macroscopic properties of biological systems as the o
 utcome of collective social computation\, Chaos & Complex Systems Semi
 nar\, Jessica Flack\, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
DESCRIPTION:A central problem in evolutionary theory is why life is hi
 erarchically organized. This problem can be decomposed into four somew
 hat separate issues (1) the causes of the emergence of novel\, functio
 nally important spatial and temporal scales\, (2) the reification of t
 hese scales into new organizational levels\, (3) the multi-level selec
 tion problem\, and (4) transitions to new kinds of individuality. In t
 his talk\, I will focus on (1) and (2)\, using data from an animal soc
 iety model system to illustrate how adaptive macroscopic properties ca
 n arise as many individuals simultaneously coarse-grain over microscop
 ic interactions to reduce uncertainty and tune decision-making strateg
 ies.
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2827
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