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SUMMARY:Complexity beyond pure reason? Emergence through the lens of coinc
 idence
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DESCRIPTION:Markus Luczak-Roech\n\nMarkus Luczak-Roesch is a Senior Lectur
 er in Information Systems at the School of Information Management at Victo
 ria University of Wellington\, New Zealand. Markus started his academic ca
 reer as a Lecturer in Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin an
 d then joined the University of Southampton to work as a Senior Research F
 ellow on the prestigious EPSRC-funded project SOCIAM – The Theory and Pr
 actice of Social Machines (http://sociam.org). At the heart of his most re
 cent research are temporal dynamics in information sequences that can be o
 bserved in naturally occurring complex systems. His focus is on the founda
 tions of space and time in the context of information as well as emergent 
 meaning that is rooted in coincidence. The information sequences Markus is
  studying stem from digital traces left by humans in online communities su
 ch as Wikipedia\, and citizen science platforms such as Zooniverse\, but a
 lso literary texts\, brain wave recordings\, and micro-linguistic data abo
 ut language use. More: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sim/about/staff/markus-
 luczak-roesch\n \nIn this talk I will introduce Transcendental Informatio
 n Cascades\, a method to understand the temporal dynamics of naturally occ
 urring complex systems. The distinctive feature of the approach is that it
  relies on a specific kind of spatio-temporal network that represents info
 rmation token recurrence and coincidence. Transcendental Information Casca
 des make formerly hidden dimensions of sequential data accessible and thro
 w up novel questions about chaos and randomness. I will present various ap
 plications of the method in different domains such as the analysis of digi
 tal traces in online communities\, English literature\, and micro-linguist
 ics.\n\nBackground:\n\nLuczak-Roesch\, M.\, Tinati\, R.\, Van Kleek\, M. a
 nd Shadbolt\, N.\, 2015\, August. From coincidence to purposeful flow? pro
 perties of transcendental information cascades. In Proceedings of the 2015
  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis
  and Mining 2015 (pp. 633-638). ACM.\n\nLuczak-Roesch\, M.\, Matters of co
 incidence or the collective digital unconscious?. https://sciblogs.co.nz/
 infrequently-asked-questions/2017/08/18/social-networks-coincidence-collec
 tive-unconscious/\n 
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