A researcher in society... Since the start of my thesis research (October 1993), my work has focused on the behaviour of artificial radioelements firstly in the geosphere and then in the biosphere. Research in these domains must directly or indirectly provide answers to very strong societal concerns relating to the consequences of artificial radioelements on man and the environment. The artific...

It is proposed that researchers in AI and ALife construct their agent minds and agent worlds as servers on the Internet. Under this scheme, not only will 3rd parties be able to re-use agent worlds in their own projects (a long-standing aim of other schemes), but 3rd parties will be able to re-use agent minds as components in larger, multiple-mind, cognitive systems. Under this scheme, any 3rd p...

A growing body of researchers from the social and computer sciences are using computational experimentation in a highly exploratory way. The work done in this area is less "simulation" and more "construction". By analogy with artificial intelligence and artificial life, this synthetic approach has become known as artificial societies. It is argued that artificial societies can aid memetic theor...

A growing body of researchers from the social and computer sciences are using computational experimentation in a highly exploratory way. The work done in this area is less "simulation" and more "construction". By analogy with artificial intelligence and artificial life, this synthetic approach has become known as artificial societies. It is argued that artificial societies can aid memetic theor...

In a society, a proportion of the individuals can benefit from creativity without being creative themselves by copying the creators. This paper uses an agent-based model of cultural evolution to investigate how society is affected by different levels of individual creativity. We performed a time series analysis of the mean fitness of ideas across the artificial society varying both the percenta...