Title: Dynamic Switching Networks: A Dynamic, Non-local, and Time-independent Approach to Emergence,
Abstract: The concept of emergence is a powerful concept to explain very complex
behaviour by simple underling rules. Existing approaches of producing emergent
collective behaviour have many limitations making them unable to account for
the complexity we see in the real world. In this paper we propose a new
dynamic, non-local, and time independent approach that uses a network like
structure to implement the laws or the rules, where the mathematical equations
representing the rules are converted to a series of switching decisions carried
out by the network on the particles moving in the network. The proposed
approach is used to generate patterns with different types of symmetry.