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@ The University of Sussex
   
 
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Scientist: Someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.

Philosopher: Someone who knows less and less about more and more until they know nothing about everything.
 


This website is no longer updated as I am now working at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany.

As a member of the Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group my research interests are: Gaia, Daisyworld, thermodynamics, evolution and artificial life.

My stable email address is james |at| hotairbaboon.com
   
 
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, BN19QH, Brighton, UK

j.g.dyke|at|sussex|dot|ac|dot|uk

   

 

I am currently a PhD student working in the Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems Group within the Centre for Computational Neuroscience & Robotics. My supervisor is Inman Harvey and I hope to foster close working relationships with Tim Lenton and his Earth Systems Modelling group at the University of East Anglia. I am co-organiser of the NAME reading group and currently maintain the Daisyworld Bibliography and Daisyworld & Beyond sites.

 

 

 

I am interested in self-regulating, homeostatic systems. I work with simple mathematical models in order to identify fundamental principles that may operate at very different scales of complexity (e.g. bacterial evolution or processes operating in the biosphere). My current research involves investigating systems that are comprised of agent & environment couplings. In particular, I am working with Daisyworld-type models in order to understand how they perform self-regulation.

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications
   
  Dyke J. G. (2008). Entropy Production in an energy balance Daisyworld model. To appear in Proceedings of ALife XI: Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK.
   
  McDonald-Gibson J., Dyke J. G., Di Paolo E., Harvey I. R. (2008). Environmental Regulation Can Arise Under Minimal Assumptions, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 251(4) pp 653-666.
   
  Wood, A. J., G. J. Ackland, J. G. Dyke, H. T. P. Williams, and T. M. Lenton (2008), Daisyworld: A review, Reviews of Geophysics, 46, RG1001, doi:10.1029/2006RG000217.
   
 

Dyke J. G., McDonald-Gibson J., Di Paolo E., Harvey I. R. (2007). Increasing complexity increases stability in a self regulating ecosystem. Proceedings of IXth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. pp 133-142. Download PDF
   
  McGregor S., Virgo N., Dyke J. G. (2006). A Critical Reappraisal of the Dynamical Systems Approach to Cognition. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE-Alife'07 - the first IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Hawaii, USA
   

 

Dyke J. G. & Harvey I. R. (2006). Pushing up the Daisies. Proceedings of Alife X: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT press. pp 426-431. Download PDF
   
  Recent Presentations
   
  Beyond Flower Power. Presented at SENSE seminar series at University of Southampton, UK, 12th Dec 2007.
 
  New Perspectives on Daisyworld: Niche Construction and Rein Control. Presented at York University, during 'Gaia Week', 21st November 2007. Download PDF
   
  Complexity Increases Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem. Presented at ECAL 2007, Lisbon, 14th September 2007 and MMEE, University of Sussex, 21st September 2007. Download PDF
   
 
Daisyworld Bibliography
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