Convivencia, Spain 2007

Talk-1, Sevilla, Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007

• Council circle: share top priorities
• The big picture
  • The bigger picture for 1492
  • The mechanisms of cultural diffusion and evolution
  • Culture as a complex dynamicl system
  • Space-time ptterns (exm, war and peace)
  • Transmission of ancoient knowledge from Greece
  • Abstract patterns (archetypes) as a theory of Nature
  • The Ross Spiral Curriculum as a Trojan horse in the world of education
• Concepts of complex dynamics
  • Stairway to chaos
  • Dynamical system, scheme
  • Logistic family (applets)
  • Three kinds of bifurcations
• Cultural bifurcations: examples from the Ross Spiral (Debra McCall)
• Modeling strategies, NetLogo models
  • Richardson arms race
  • Boids
  • Voting
• Discussion