Complexity Science movie?
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Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies
complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. Any thoughts? --joshua -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/3ae69d32/attachment.html |
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Sliding Doors that Gwenyth Paltrow movie comes to mind. It is about
the completely different life that would have occurred if she had not missed the train. It suggests non-linearity. Jen On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: > Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies > complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with > emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. > > Any thoughts? > > --joshua > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/2e0562f0/attachment.html |
Complexity Science movie?
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Clockwise with John Cleese.
If I recall correctly a small change in initial conditions leads to unintentional results. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: Jen Watkins To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Science movie? Sliding Doors that Gwenyth Paltrow movie comes to mind. It is about the completely different life that would have occurred if she had not missed the train. It suggests non-linearity. Jen On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. Any thoughts? --joshua ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/d9da83d1/attachment.html |
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I'm not sure if these meet your criteria of a "movie", but there are countless films of bicycle road races - helicopter sweeps show pelotons in all their magnificent complexity. The rotational patterns which self-organize are the most striking.
HT ----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Macovsky To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Science movie? Clockwise with John Cleese. If I recall correctly a small change in initial conditions leads to unintentional results. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: Jen Watkins To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Science movie? Sliding Doors that Gwenyth Paltrow movie comes to mind. It is about the completely different life that would have occurred if she had not missed the train. It suggests non-linearity. Jen On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. Any thoughts? --joshua ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/9e4dc86d/attachment.html |
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Joshua> Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that Joshua> exemplifies complexity science themes, such as many Joshua> interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear Joshua> behaviors, self organizing, etc. Complexity is one of the premises behind the book Jurassic Park, by Michael Crighton, made into a movie with Jeff Goldblum as the mathematician (a chaos theorist). The idea put forth by the mathematician in the book (and to some extent this is preserved in the movie), is that a complex system cannot be controlled, so something is bound to go wrong in Jurassic Park. I vaguely remember Doyne Farmer saying that Jeff Goldblum had called him up to talk about how to play his role in the movie. |
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Run Lola Run. Wikipedia has a summary.
Mike On Jun 30, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Mark Galassi wrote: > > Joshua> Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that > Joshua> exemplifies complexity science themes, such as many > Joshua> interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear > Joshua> behaviors, self organizing, etc. > > Complexity is one of the premises behind the book Jurassic Park, by > Michael Crighton, made into a movie with Jeff Goldblum as the > mathematician (a chaos theorist). > > The idea put forth by the mathematician in the book (and to some > extent > this is preserved in the movie), is that a complex system cannot be > controlled, so something is bound to go wrong in Jurassic Park. > > I vaguely remember Doyne Farmer saying that Jeff Goldblum had > called him > up to talk about how to play his role in the movie. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/cc5d023b/attachment.html |
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>> Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that >> exemplifies complexity science themes, such as many >> interacting parts with emergent patterns, non-linear >> behaviors, self organizing, etc. Another one: http://www.pithemovie.com |
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Koyanisquaatsi. Some fascinating shots of crowds of people, traffic etc. The
score (Philip Glass) is also an interesting example of emergence: its an apparently simple pattern (arpeggio after arpeggio in a pretty straightforward chord progression) but it ends up far more sonically engaging than it has any right to. And if you have a Netflix account, it's available on their instant movie viewer. Robert On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Joshua Thorp <jthorp at redfish.com> wrote: > Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies complexity > science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, > non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. > Any thoughts? > > --joshua > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080630/dca10e77/attachment.html |
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This is a good one. Attractors.. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind |
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There's a movie called "The Butterfly Effect" which is themed on that
effect. About a guy trying to change his life by changing a pivotal event in his past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Joshua Thorp <jthorp at redfish.com> wrote: > Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies complexity > science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, > non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. > Any thoughts? > > --joshua > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080701/baa3bfe7/attachment.html |
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Joshua Thorp wrote:
> Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies > complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent > patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. I think the scenes in "Yellowbeard" where Madeline Kahn's and Graham Chapman's characters are remembering the sequence of movements to find the treasure show something of non-linear behaviors, possibly self organizing. "Stagger, stagger, crawl, crawl, jump..." -- Ray Parks rcparks at sandia.gov Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 |
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Hola
Maybe A Sound of Thunder movie is the film you are looking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder Hasta pronto y exitos Alfredo C. 2008/6/30 Joshua Thorp <jthorp at redfish.com>: > Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies complexity > science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent patterns, > non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. > Any thoughts? > > --joshua > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080701/61f53bfb/attachment.html |
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Whoo, yeah, while I love the Butterfly Effect and teach about it
often, I strongly discourage people from seeing the movie by that title, as it's pretty darn grim, and not particularly intellectually stimulating (at all). Another one I disrecommend is that "Bleep"ing movie, which, aside from having good production values I thought was utterly vapid and totally missed the mark, while getting sucked down some quantum wormhole into a weird new-age timevortex. Or something like that. Funny that Peter and I disagree on that, as you're usually so spot on, Pete :) I was wondering when we were going to start going negative on this topic... figured I might take the lead :) But for a positive recommendation, I just saw "Click", a surprisingly engaging Adam Sandler movie about a guy who gets a universal remote that lets him fast forward his life to see the consequences of his choices... (but you have to like Adma Sandler, as it is kinda dopey:) -Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D. Executive Director http://www.FractalFoundation.org Coming Friday July 4th, "Fractals Rock!" Fractals are SMART: Science, Math & Art! On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Saul Caganoff wrote: > There's a movie called "The Butterfly Effect" which is themed on > that effect. About a guy trying to change his life by changing a > pivotal event in his past. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Joshua Thorp <jthorp at redfish.com> > wrote: > Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies > complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with > emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. > > Any thoughts? > > --joshua > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > -- > Saul Caganoff > Enterprise IT Architect > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080702/63212a42/attachment.html |
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Not a movie, but a television program, Stargate SG-1, featured
something called "the Replicators", a race of robot things made up from tiny, self-organizing, adaptive, self-repairing sub-units. ~~James > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Joshua Thorp <jthorp at redfish.com> wrote: >> >> Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies >> complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with emergent >> patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc. >> Any thoughts? >> --joshua |
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