That's only in you model, and leaves out the rest of the world. My hunch
is it's good to watch the rest of the world for diverging continuities
too...
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is not enough?
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or enough money put back as
needed to relieve the system of unachievable obligations to them.
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mine and Noether's, are quite different. Certainly how hers has been used
is greatly different from how I use mine. If anyone has questions. or
finds a glitch. etc. I'd of course be interested.
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even an important feature of how complex systems work, how their
development seems to rely on strings of wonderful found objects that seem to
connect unusually well. I think that's a lot of what the mystery is.
Best,
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-- Owen
been developed with unnecessary shortcuts that reduce its generality.
Theorem http://www.synapse9.com/drtheo.pdf
Background an applying to physical systems
http://www.synapse9.com/physicsofchange.htm
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Phil Henshaw
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From: Saul Caganoff [mailto:scagan
Hmmm,. that does seem to be a problem for me sometimes.Didn't you build
on other people's ideas and incorporate them in you models, and so create an
inheritance connection between them?
Phil Henshaw
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Phil Henshaw s
as experimental,
one might ask the contributors of the model be published in the community
'cladogram' about that, but it's going to end up looking like a network
history map, which is a hard thing to read and probably as much of a
challenge to analyze...
Phil Henshaw
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and subtracting steps) for the complex systems involved. Seeing
how it's done naturally might give you ideas, or even help you replicate
things of similar kinds.
Phil Henshaw
NY NY www.synapse9.com
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changes unexpectedly with scale.
Would you include that in your problem statement?
Phil Henshaw
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, there
are discontinuities, but often observably in the mode of explanation used
and not the physical process.
Does anyone else also see the need to have gaps between modes of explanation
for complex system features as a important reason for using the word
'complex' to describe them?
Phil Henshaw
of explanation used
and not the physical process.
Does anyone else also see the need to have gaps between modes of explanation
for complex system features as a important reason for using the word
'complex' to describe them?
Phil Henshaw
progress by turning in the same direction as
before. It can be both necessary and rather difficult to convince people
with institutional habits to consider remarkable concept like that. ;-)
Phil Henshaw
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amorphous computing.What you'd need maybe is someone to
create a relational network map and have the authors of ABM's draw links
with the ones it was based on somehow. ??
Phil Henshaw
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Hi, hope all are having a good holiday.
I'd appreciate any comment on my condensed encyclopedia entry on the history
and issues of complex systems science for the Encyclopedia of the Earth.
The initial review comment was that I think it is a nice piece, and
appropriate in terms of language,
How about listing some of the true open questions, you know, what's missing
from the view of science?That would be a kind of scientific use of art.
So many of the 'portals' between mental universes seem to be through their
respective dark matter.
Phil Henshaw
For a course on approximation to omit individual case differences is
curiously systemic, as that (individual case differences) is one of more
important complex system properties
Phil Henshaw
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really grow. It sounds much too much like he's thinking of businesses as
only columns in a spreadsheet...
Phil Henshaw
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24hr global air traffic image.
http://www.clipjunkie.com/Global-Air-Traffic-vid4043.html
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If Lessig's idea is to make institutions that require trust to work better,
wouldn't experts need to be interested in identifying their own expert
errors to make that work.?
If we found it fun to look for our untrustworthy assumptions, maybe we'd
become more trustworthy...
Phil Henshaw
that seems to fit.
Another one would be who's environment?, which I think leads one back
to ontology formation/niche construction. Is it not so much that
prediction is bad but rather that it is quaint for the types of
questions we want/need to ask?
Carl
Phil Henshaw wrote:
Why prediction
think you were recently puzzling over why it's so very hard to communicate
anything in particular.Do you think this mixed reference problem might
have something to do with that?
Phil Henshaw
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vibration
events and propagation fronts, etc.
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Dear All,
We have been having
information about how
they might not quite apply too. but I guess that's not just a matter of
clumsiness.
So, is that saying it is so or it isn't so, I'm confused. ;-)
Phil Henshaw
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limits -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
Other Papers - http://www.synapse9.com/phpub.htm
Physics of Happening http://www.synapse9.com/drwork.htm
Phil Henshawnatural systems design science
...
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individual systems, at least if you accept looking for simple questions
first, and then looking around for others.
Best
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could be simpler and more potentially useful, if also seemingly not
understood?
Wazup? What's not to get in that? Really..
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the new
behaviors as they develop.
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Phil - thanks for your timely
5yr Dow Monsanto today
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statistical means of measuring bias on test, that … gave them no chance to
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is unsolvable.It explains why
previously trustworthy systems can go hopelessly out of control.A usual
part of expert error, of course, is reading “dismissal before content” in the
usual peer review process. Is that truly as unsolvable as it seems?
Phil Henshaw
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being asked that question, but I think all the incompleteness
theorems point to a quite clear answer of 'no'.
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the deterministic model, of course, but points
to a gap in our rules where things could both exit and enter.
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in terms of
which rules we believe in, and that itself is a big mistake.
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of other forms to explore,
and are not pushed in a way that disrupts their learning.It seems to be
most basic to caring for systems you really must rely on to take care of
themselves.
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of their commitment, so long as they know if they want legal rights,
obligations and recognitions from the government they need to pay $25 and
sign a form too.
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Steve,
[ph] So we see many of the same historic signs of explosive acceleration,
it's just a fact, and how it's been accumulative (till last month anyway.
:-) )
Look at how vastly each generations life experience has been from the last,
going back as many generations as we have any personal
Does it just accelerate indefinitely, like the singularity guys propose??
Or does it reach some point of stabilization as a process, and a relative
completion of the process of exploding rates of change?
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, is the way to sort
things out.
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likely to be
verifiable if they're real.
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Phil Henshaw
see
growing incremental change as a progression over time, the pattern of
explosions, but many people dont seem to. How would I convey that to
people who are not clear about it?
Phil Henshaw
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And the usual flaw being sure about how things would seem to have worked in
the past, and possibly not notice them diverge over time.?
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Yea, sort of like teaching creationism for science is teaching determinism
for life..
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organization and
behavior of their own almost no one happens to watch. We just give label
with the latest news story stereotype and that settles it!
I dont think education seems to fix that disease in the situation where
everyone apparently has it.
Phil Henshaw
diminishing assets, one of those seemingly unchanging general
conditions that foretell enormous change.
Does that help?
Phil Henshaw
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below the
financial expectations guaranteed by central banks... :-(
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it's not finding what people say interesting, but finding
resources will eventually cross the whole system
profitability thresholds. Whether people see them coming or can explain it
is not the first question. You just 'half answer' it at first, asking
whether the kind of effect we should see fits the general picture of what we
are seeing.
Phil Henshaw
in the absence
of similar physical system growth. We should learn from experience. The
problem of collapse is not with the pins that prick our bubbles but the
pumps that pump them to the point of bursting.
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emerging diminishing returns.
The data was actually plentiful, though, hidden only by the people who
didn't see the question!
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. The solution is to notice the cognitive
dissonance... you could say, and just ask the dumb questions.
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to switch it off automatic.
It's actually a quite useful question.The wonder to me is why science
has not yet seemed to acknowledge that systems of change change things.
Phil
Ken
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Of course!, the reason they fooled everyone so completely was that they were
designed to be completely sensible. That's what is meant by the black
swan.
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Well. that you then get a list of ten pages of new journals describing new
fields for discussing the problems of new information complexity and
overload. might be the point.
Phil Henshaw
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I sold enough for my own and my son's security for a time last Nov for
what it's worth. I chose not to sell out to see how it felt to only 'cover
my ass' and not act like leading the kind of 'flight to safety' that would
bring whole systems down if copied. That did develop, of course, a few
Yes, there have been lots of blunders. We've also not been looking at
how environment is becoming increasingly unresponsive, turning a great many
of our assumptions about it upside down. :-o
http://www.synapse9.com/issues/92-08Commodities2-sm.pdfThis is just one
of many kinds of divergent
follow it through, straighten all that out is considering
systems as individual exploratory networks. Then you can still have
independent ones that overlap and they still work fine, and all of them can
have a role in mediating selection for all the others.
Phil Henshaw
Russ,
That's a good example about the difference between breeding for the best
bird vs. the best bird environment, but they don't immediately seem to
address whether variation is developmental or random. It's tricky to
find the hard evidence, but I don't know of anyone saying they could
I agree with most of Nick's hesitations (except re: all caps.. :-))
Population expansion would increase the variety of individuals to be
selected from, though.I think that was the idea behind Terry Deacon's
theory, still with variation being random and constant, and using the same
old
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:54:45PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
Russ,
You say: I'm trying a slightly different tack with Tierra, of
artificially
Peter,
Nice, That's definitely very poetic, making clear why one needs to learn how
to read beyond the facts and the data, as we are all taught never to do.!
Still it seems to omit some of the tension within analysis which allows that
to happen, and that Cousins and Whitehead both seem likely
Steve,
Good, so if we're only to create a similarly huge number of unconsidered
regions by acknowledging that some systems are both highly systematic and
completely out of control, let's pick it apart a little. It is indeed sad
that we seem to need such dramatic demonstrations as having our
Nick,
I think I agree with you. You say So whether relaxed selection produces
'exploration of morphology space' will depend on the structure and stability
of the environment in terms of size and longevity of the species.
If the evidence, that S J Gould brought to everyone's attention, is that
Marcus,
Well, epigenetics is important to understand and maybe looked at another way
helps narrow the real question. We could consider the vast variation in
canine breeds and the fact that breeding selection as an extreme form of
epigenetics has not apparently altered the species they all belong
Russ,
You say: I'm trying a slightly different tack with Tierra, of artificially
inducing mass extinctions every now and then. I have also tried reducing
parsimony pressure from time to time (I'm not sure what would be the
biological world equivalent of this - possibly variation in background
Marcus says:
Phil Henshaw wrote:
We could consider the vast variation in
canine breeds and the fact that breeding selection as an extreme form of
epigenetics has not apparently altered the species they all belong to.
Selection from breeding would mostly be constrained genetics, i.e
so, but for the most part I think of scientists as intellectually
honest, as doing as good a job as they know how to do, and as willing to
change their minds in the face of contrary evidence.
-- Russ
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Oh, just
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Thus spake Phil Henshaw circa 10/07/2008 12:15 PM:
Well, the reliance on competence is relative
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Thus spake Phil Henshaw circa 10/09/2008 04:48 AM:
Right, but totally inconsistent with your first statement
Glen says,
The idea was that math is just the transformation of one set of
sentences into another set of sentences by a particular grammar. This
is (weakly) analogous to the transformation of a piece of paper from one
shape to another.
But then the idea driving you to do that is your own
Steve,
Well, might you also say science is self-organized to be 'robustly' avoiding
the subject of uncontrolled systems too??
If something doesn't come to your attention because you're only looking for
something else, it could seem to not exist. How do you explain the very
large variety of
Or. another angle. Proofs represent discoveries about the invented grammar
they use, with the proviso of so far as we can see? The way we define
grammars changes to suite our intentions occasionally, but we're generally
trying to identify things inherent in nature, for grammars drawn as
To add to that, there seems to be a large institutional push for business
and political funded mercenary scientific research to create uncertainty
about legitimate science. A comment on David Michaels' in book Doubt is
their product is in the 9/27 Science News sums it up. It's 1100 references
Well, where do you put inherited 'willful ignorance'? That kind is sort
of 'built in'.
There are two of these that my work repeatedly runs into and I fail to find
a way around.One is the evident fact that the active parts of nature
develop locally and have their own local reactions to
The Matt Taibbi quote is an amazingly clear description of the dilemma of
minds that make sense of things by plugging in stereotypes of the real
world and so creating an imaginary one lacking internal conflicts. The
error common to all such confusions seems to be discussing things in terms
of
Well Russ, what if a group of scientists were to acknowledge that science
actually just seems to be descriptive after all..., and looking through the
holes one seems able to actually see signs of a physical world after all!
Than sort of 'emperor's new clothes' moment might be enough to turn
Robert,
You complain about the dominance of money??How about adding a way to cap
the compounding of unearned income somewhere below infinity.? I can only
model the negative image of that, what can't happen if that's not done,
though. Very few people are exploring the consequences of
Jochen,
That concept of alternating opportunistic and constrained developmental
phases, 'relaxed' then 'fierce' selection regimes, sounds like a statistical
version of the behavioral model that growth begins from minute beginnings in
an environment without constraint except itself. When that kind
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] or more simply, is there order?
Thus spake Phil Henshaw circa 10/02/2008 08:41 PM:
[ph] Yes models would likely show signatures of how they are built,
These are not necessarily signatures solely indicating how a model was
_built_. In fact, since the same model can be built in many
the learning demands of a
system beyond the responsiveness of its parts. Does that make any sense in
terms of what you observe?
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Ken,
To make that divergent math work, your 2 + 2 = n + d is just the kind of
dilemma with modeling the emerging divergent systems of nature that not
studying divergent sequences distracts us from. There's a solution. Can
you guess?
Phil
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and Observer http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/time
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/timeobs.htm obs.htm
Ken
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, but not explainable?Does that
work, is that right ?
Phil
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Phil Henshaw
'The Black Swan' was mentioned this AM on the radio in NY and I ordered a
copy.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=si3_rdr_bb_author?index=booksfield%2dauthor%2d
exact=Nassim%20Nicholas%20Taleb Nassim Taleb seems like a prolific writher
and fascinating guy. The other author mentioned on the segment was
that as a difference between how things?If so, how do
you define or make the destinction?
Best,
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Another way to say why there is a phase transition to instability there is
that it is inherent in pushing learning tasks to exceed their response
times. Becoming incoherent in response is a kind of system failure that
leads to systems to collapse for any critical part. That is part of that
Oh yes... how the fix for the need for a Goldilocks magic in setting the
price for unmarketable assets. It's very simple. Just use your best
realistic guess. You don't worry about putting the tax payer on the hook
by including the provision that the costs of stabilizing a system brought
down
overshoot. That's what I
dubbed it anyway, the prudent choice to not push the learning demands of a
system beyond the responsiveness of its parts. Does that make any sense in
terms of what you observe?
Phil Henshaw
crunch and the control system misbehavior fishtailing. If people want
to know what to do to reduce the level of the calamity even at this point
they should ask.
Phil Henshaw
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Marcus,
Thanks for acknowledging that there at least might be some process behind
the buzz words being used in the pop culture discussion of events. The so
called 'sub-prime crisis' is referred to using a stereotype for ancient and
long discredited people and practices. I think it's inadequate
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Phil Henshaw wrote:
If offering
opportunity for mischief isn't a direct physical cause in this very
one
sided kind of case, then tell me why it's so extremely
Our fascination in physics with colliders shows that large data sets of
things banging into each other is a potential gold mine of complex systems
data.
The big non-linear colliders in the economic system are producing a storm of
data on fishtailing control mechanisms at the present, and a
What about the bigger non-linear real world colliders?I think they're
magnificent complex processes that matter enormously to understand.Did
you all decide they're just equations we'll never understand or something,
or that what looked like a major collapse of our life-support system was
are, knowing of it we do not.
Evidence alone won't find it (no matter how well or variously or
repetitively presented).
You have to ask a right question.
Punctuation may help too; maybe some hyphens.
Phil Henshaw wrote:
Is there anything else around we can ignore the pump it till
Is there anything else around we can ignore the pump it till it quits
problem for?
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Hmmm. I got a black hole appearing in the middle of the device that consumed
it. Are any of you still there???
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. Everyone mistakenly sees the multiplier as a
way to multiply their own rewards, and doesnt see that it as also
multiplies their neighbors risks. The real problem is that there is no
way to turn it off when the risks get out of control.
Best,
Phil Henshaw
a formula inside an environment, though,
there's a curious formal gap of disconnection all around it, it seems to me.
phil
Ken
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