Mind as motion: explorations in the dynamics of cognition
Mind as motion: explorations in the dynamics of cognition
Computational mechanics of cellular automata: an example
Proceedings of the workshop on Lattice dynamics
Entropy and self-organization in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet
Writing Machines
Functional MRI and the Study of Human Consciousness
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon
Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon
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Agent-based computer simulations use agents on landscapes to investigate epidemics, social phenomena, decision making, supply networks, the behavior of biological systems, and physical and chemical processes, among other things. This essay examines how agents and landscapes are oriented in time and this orientation's relevance to observing and interpreting findings. I argue that the proposed temporal deepening of how simulations are constructed involving interaction of multiple temporalities itself a kind of temporality could lead to the unexpected triggering of cascades of secondary emergences. Such cascades may already be there but going unobserved. Buddhist cosmology is briefly used as a contrast with current simulation temporal orientations to illuminate key points. Katherine Hayles's work on media, my theoretical work on time-ecologies and heterochrony, and J. T. Fraser's theory of the nested hierarchy of time and associated causalities are used to explore these issues.