Resilient Life: An Exploration of Perturbed Autopoietic Patterns in Conway's Game of Life

Quantifying resilience under deep uncertainty

“…For example, Holling (1996) proposed measuring return speed to equilibrium for "engineering resilience", and absorption capacity before shifting performance levels for "ecological resilience". A wide variety of other resilience metrics have been proposed in the literature, such as flow magnitudes (Ulanowicz et al, 2009) or differences between pre-and post-disturbance spatial patterns (Cika et al, 2020). The diversity of approaches has challenged our ability to effectively measure resilience (Klein et al, 2003).…”

“…Favoring the specificity of resilience, a wide variety of metrics have been created to quantify resilience in different contexts. These are based on concepts as diverse as system-scale behavior over time (Holling, 1973), flow magnitudes between entities in the system (Ulanowicz et al, 2009), and pre-and post-disturbance spatial patterns (Cika et al, 2020).…”