Recent developments in image analysis have made it possible to obtain kinetic data
regarding how real organisms move, revealing dynamic internal structures within groups …

This paper demonstrates the method and meaning behind the argument that contemporary
philosophers have found the key to “de-creation” in potentiality by implementing it in artwork …

A flock, school, and swarm are collective behaviors that can be compared to a human
consciousness or body. Through recent developments in image analysis and model …

Canalization is a typical self-organization process leading to complementarity between parts
and the whole. In the field of developmental biology, concerns about morphogenesis …

Recently, new empirical research of flocking behavior has been accumulated. Scale-free
proportion has revealed how a flock can appear to behave as if it has one mind and body …

Propagating waves, information transfers of direction of travel in collective groups, have
been observed in animal groups of insects, birds, fish, and mammals. Nevertheless …

In this chapter, the authors present an argument which can be called “logic as a narrative.”
First, they consider two different types of systems concerning logic. One is formal logic …

The question concerning the meaning of life is important, but it immediately confronts the
present authors with insurmountable obstacles from a philosophical standpoint, as it would …

A flock or frequently looks like as if it was one unique organism. From field observation of
soldier crabs we find that directions of individual transitions are usually not aligned, and that …

抄録 Previously, school, herd and swarm are explained by using a model called BOID and
SPP which are based on the coupling of local potential and external perturbation …