{"id":177330,"date":"2023-12-03T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/edge-of-chaos-theory-cellular-automata-wolfram-psychology"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:23:48","slug":"edge-of-chaos-theory-cellular-automata-wolfram-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/edge-of-chaos-theory-cellular-automata-wolfram-psychology","title":{"rendered":"Edge of Chaos Theory | Cellular Automata, Wolfram, &amp; Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XcB_7jv98uE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Order vs Disorder, Jordan Peterson\u2019s Yin Yang analogy, &amp; Stephen Wolfram\u2019s 4 classes of cellular automata are explored. The edge of chaos is the phase transition zone between order and disorder which is found across a broad range of complex systems. We discuss Norman Packard, Christopher Langton, John Beggs, Stuart Kauffman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and M. Mitchell Waldrop. Wolfram\u2019s Rule 110 and John Conway\u2019s Game of Life, both Turing complete, make appearances.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro.<br \/> 0:59 Lambda &amp; Wolfram\u2019s 4 Classes.<br \/> 3:32 Criticality, Avalanches, &amp; John Beggs.<br \/> 4:44 Homework? More like FUNwork!<br \/> 5:08 Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.<br \/> 5:35 Jordan Peterson (Yin-Yang)<br \/> 9:39 M. Mitchell Waldrop\u2019s Complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Play with cellular automata here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/math.hws.edu\/eck\/js\/edge-of-chaos\/CA.html\">https:\/\/math.hws.edu\/eck\/js\/edge-of-chaos\/CA.html<\/a>.<br \/> David J. Eck, Hobart and William Smith Colleges flow state by MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI \u25ba The Secret to Happiness &amp; Psychology of Optimal Experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9e31Tdvz_FU&list=PLyQeeNuuRLBU1kPBCZMeHQhsWGsWQOG6H\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9e31Tdvz_FU&amp;list=PLyQeeNuuRL\u2026sWGsWQOG6H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udebe Works Cited.<br \/> Jeremy Avnet (brainsik); Senior Thesis, Mathematics; University California, Santa Cruz; 6th June 2000 <a href=\"https:\/\/theory.org\/complexity\/cdpt\/html\/node5.html#foot561\">https:\/\/theory.org\/complexity\/cdpt\/html\/node5.html#foot561<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jfromm (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cas-group.net\/index.php?title=File:\">http:\/\/wiki.cas-group.net\/index.php?title=File:<\/a> Edge_of_Chaos.png.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, Sean. (2017). Toward Conceptualizing Race and Racial Identity Development Within an Attractor Landscape. SAGE Open. 7. 10.1177\u00f72158244017719310.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/edge-of-chaos-theory-cellular-automata-wolfram-psychology\">Continue reading \u201cEdge of Chaos Theory | Cellular Automata, Wolfram, &amp; Psychology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order vs Disorder, Jordan Peterson\u2019s Yin Yang analogy, &amp; Stephen Wolfram\u2019s 4 classes of cellular automata are explored. The edge of chaos is the phase transition zone between order and disorder which is found across a broad range of complex systems. We discuss Norman Packard, Christopher Langton, John Beggs, Stuart Kauffman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and M. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}