I have
noticed that often more men are interested in Agent Based Modeling than women
while more women are interested in Biomimicry than men. I am wondering why
this is? I would like to put out this question to others.
Both ABM
and Biomimicry have much to offer. To me Agent Based Modeling takes a very
distant view of dynamic processes, like a five mile high view. This allows a
broader view and greater scope. Individual behavior becomes a matter of probabilities.
Biomimicry on the other hand is a whole mind body empathic, sympathic,
compathic relationship with living beings as species and individuals. By
copying or mimicking living beings, probabilities are not required because
copying existing life behavior and physical properties is highly specific in
design. While vast, the number of possible design solutions is bounded by what
can live. What can live also contains an ethical dimension that grounds and
precepts possibilities. In Agent Based Modeling the death of individuals or
groups is abstracted to be expressed as parameters emerge and recede within the
model. To a large extent, in Biomimicry the death of a species or individual
life is the ultimate determinant of which biological qualities to mimic.
I sense
that the Agent Based Modeling approach with its roots in western mathematics
carries forward some of the difficulties and even cul de sacs of western
intellectual life and philosophy. Like imposing platonic solid forms on the
world, there are important similarities that are revealed—a common
language developed for qualities of the physical world. But no individual
contains or expresses these qualities except in often large and varying degrees
of approximation. It can be said that these entities like
platonic solids and other mathematical systems such as Agent
Based Modeling are not alive nor more importantly cannot live.
Of course to this extent they cannot die either which has its benefits.
It seems
to me that we need a deeper integration of approaches that are outside the
body but return to reside in the living and in the living body.
I would
like to propose a SapphoSocratic approach. But I will leave this for another
message since this one has become rather long already.
Ann Racuya-Robbins
Founder and CEO
World Knowledge Bank®
https://www.wkbank.com/knowledge/Agent_Based_Modeling_and_Biomimicry
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