External and internal complexity of complex adaptive systems

Jürgen Jost

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Submission date: 16. Dec. 2003
Pages: 19
published in: Theory in biosciences, 123 (2004) 1, p. 69-88 
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1016/j.thbio.2003.10.001
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Abstract:
We introduce concepts of external and internal complexity to analyze the relation between an adaptive system and its environment. We apply this theoretical framework to the construction of models in a cognitive system and the selection between hypotheses through selective observations performed on a data set in a recurrent process and propose a corresponding neural network architecture.