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Context Dependent Information Processing Entails Scale-Free Dynamics

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To function as an intelligent surrogate for its owner, the smartdata agent must be capable of context dependent information processing. Not only does this require that the agent’s behaviour be flexible and fluid but it’s adaptation to new contexts must be open-ended since the number of potential contexts to which it is exposed is indeterminate and possibly infinite. Two types of context are distinguished, positivistic and phenomenological. It is argued that in both types of context, scale free dynamics is required for context dependent information processing. Wild dynamics, a type of scale free dynamics, has characteristics that would allow adaptation to new context to be open-ended and its implementation could be used as a constraint in the evolution of smartdata agents.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Donald Borrett

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  1. , School of Informatics, University of Sussex, Sussex House, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom

    Inman Harvey

  2. Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Office of the Information and, Bloor Street, Toronto, M4W 1A8, Ontario, Canada

    Ann Cavoukian

  3. , Identity, Privacy and Security Initiativ, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, M5S 3G4, Ontario, Canada

    George Tomko

  4. , Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, M5S 3G4, Ontario, Canada

    Don Borrett

  5. , Department of Neurophysiology, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, M5S 3G4, Ontario, Canada

    Hon Kwan

  6. , Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, M5S 3G4, Ontario, Canada

    Dimitrios Hatzinakos

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Borrett, D. (2013). Context Dependent Information Processing Entails Scale-Free Dynamics. In: Harvey, I., Cavoukian, A., Tomko, G., Borrett, D., Kwan, H., Hatzinakos, D. (eds) SmartData. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6409-9_4

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