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Y P Gunji

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Global logic resulting from disequilibration process.

Describing a system in which internal detection or observation proceeds at a finite velocity is always destined to end up with a form of self-contradiction. For any formal language, for such a description, we must assume that the velocity of observation propagation or VOP be infinity. In the present paper, we propose a self-referential scheme intended for formally describing a system exhibiting the process of disequilibration propagating at a finite VOP, and find that a global logic can emerge from local disequilibration. Conservative cellular automata of Margolus type, for instance, enable disequilibration to be replaced by such a process that the number of particles is not conserved globally while appearing to be conserved by local observers. One cannot determine local rules universally. Nevertheless, global logic emerges as a result of the dynamics of a one-to-many type mapping. This is a fundamental aspect of natural languages or communication relevant to natural life and intelligence.

Biological Evolution

Inter- and intracellular computation models based on Boolean vs. non-Boolean inconsistency.

Systems involving both intracellular and intercellular computation are destined to be described as non-computable. We propose a model for such systems by introducing the inconsistent relation of Boolean and non-Boolean logic. Cellular automata fashioned model exhibits an evolution like class 4 located at the edge of chaos, while there is no local rule for universality existing over the whole space in our model. A system featuring the inconsistent vertical scheme is approximately articulated into a hierarchical system, whose wholeness cannot be deduced by any approximated local rule. In other words, undecidability between a part and whole comprises a hierarchical structure.

Animals

The information generated in a man-to-man game called "Renju (Go-bang)".

A learning experiment was designed using "Renju (Go-bang)". The matches could proceed with prior indefiniteness, distinct from probability, as under the finite VOP (velocity of observation propagation). The information of each situation in the first game SSG and one in the replay SRE were investigated with the basic strategy derived from the "Renju" rules. The behavior of the difference (SRE (i)-SSG (i)) suggested that prior indefiniteness turned into definiteness, suggesting that perpetual decision change occurred and that it perpetually allowed observers to construct higher levels of hierarchical learning logic.

Decision Making

Self-organisation of living systems towards criticality at the edge of chaos.

A principle of self-organization toward a critical state is proposed as a metadynamics of evolutionary processes. When the propagation velocity of information is slow as in living systems, discrepancy occurs between the virtual process and the actual one. The degree of discrepancy is defined for discrete dynamical systems on the scheme of perpetual disequilibration (PD), proposed by Gunji and others. It is supposed that adaptable systems tend to evolve so that the discrepancy may be minimized. A principle of the minimum degree of PD is applied to cellular automata and Boolean networks. These complex systems have the minimum degree of PD at the border between order and chaos, and thus are expected to evolve to the critical state at the edge of chaos. This self-organized criticality is a generalized form of Bak's self-organized criticality.

Biological Evolution

Self-organization toward criticality in the Game of Life.

Life seems to be at the border between order and chaos. The Game of Life, which is a cellular automation to mimic life, also lies at the transition between ordered and chaotic structures. Kauffman recently that the organizations at the edge of chaos may be the characteristic target of selection for systems able to coordinate complex tasks and adapt. In this paper, we present the idea of perpetual disequilibration proposed by Gunji and others as a general principle governing self-organization of complex systems towards the critical state lying at the border of order and chaos. The rule for the Game of Life has the minimum degree of perpetual disequilibrium among 2(18) rules of the class to which it belongs.

Biological Evolution

Model for a self-repairing system of non-articulated coralline algae.

We propose a perspective for living systems, emphasizing that living systems are organized through the recognition of themselves and their surroundings. Oscillator functions in Brownian Algebra are introduced, supposing that the oscillation can be regarded as metabolism of the living state. We illustrate the idea of the self-repairing model in non-articulated coralline algae. Since various cells of this plant are assumed to be identified with the periodic sequence of oscillations, the individual periodic sequence characterizing a cell is supposed to be determined by a local-interaction rule which can be regarded as the process of self-organization through the recognition of local shape. Owing to accidental injury the rule characterizing a cell's own state can be transformed, and it entails another periodic sequence. We express the oscillator as state flow diagrams, and analyze the relationship between the transformation of the period and the injury which is represented by the removal of transient in flow diagrams.

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