{"id":54256,"date":"2017-03-05T05:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T05:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54256"},"modified":"2017-03-05T05:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T05:08:27","slug":"flight-paths-in-simulation-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54256","title":{"rendered":"Flight paths in simulation and reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; once again, one thing reminds me of another ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>OTOH, in reality:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nearly 100,000 people spending their Saturday night crossing the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6HvztbMgU\">https:\/\/t.co\/N6HvztbMgU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpP56lOMro\">pic.twitter.com\/kpP56lOMro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flightradar24\/status\/838233627079094272\">March 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OTOH, in simulation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbUPfMXXQIY?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The simple excellence of <strong>rulesets in agent-based modeling<\/strong> is wonderfully demonstrated by the way the eye can &#8220;recognize&#8221; the movements on a flock of birds or a school of fish in <strong>Craig Reynolds<\/strong>&#8216; <em>boids<\/em> &#8212; rulesets notably simpler than the explanations for flocking behavior previously suggested by biologists.<\/p>\n<p>Metacognitive question: what&#8217;s the cognitive means by which we humans can &#8220;see&#8221; that the boid simulation is a sufficiently accurate representation of birds flocking and fishes schooling to account for them? &#8212; and ditto for birds flocking and fishes schooling, how do we &#8220;see&#8221; them as naturally equivalent? &#8212; and ditto for those birds flocking and fishes schooling and our earlier biological accounts of their behaviors? &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>With a hypothesis, we can test by finding predictable or disconfirmative instances beyond those on which the hypothesis is suggested.. but when the similarity is visually perceived?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; once again, one thing reminds me of another ] . OTOH, in reality: Nearly 100,000 people spending their Saturday night crossing the Atlantic. ? https:\/\/t.co\/N6HvztbMgU pic.twitter.com\/kpP56lOMro &mdash; Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 5, 2017 OTOH, in simulation: ** The simple excellence of rulesets in agent-based modeling is wonderfully demonstrated by the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1117,526,24,627,462,743,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agent-based-modeling","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-doublequotes","category-metacognition","category-simulation","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54264,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions\/54264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}