Self-organization:
Nature’s Intelligent Design

Self-organized Structures in Nature

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Landscape of Early Southern Wisconsin (USA)

#2
Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model

Cellular Automaton
(Voter Model)

Initial Conditions

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#3
Deterministic Cellular Automaton Model

Why a deterministic model?

Deterministic CA

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Power Laws (Zipf)

Other Examples of Power Laws

#4
Lotka-Volterra Models

Multispecies Lotka-Volterra Model

Evolution to
“the Edge of Chaos”

Chaos

Minimal High-D Chaotic L-V Model

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#5
Social Network Model

Social Networks

#6
Strange Attractors

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Aesthetic Evaluation

Conclusions

References