Great question and great list! The difficulty of the formal treatments
is one the things that jumps out as something to contend with in
discussing them. Simplifying without confusing this level of work is
very hard to do.
I recently found Rob Ulanowicz's Growth and Development (1986),
IMHO formal treatments and formalisms are not helpful for
complex systems, if you want to understand complex systems
in general. They are NOT the right way, because they try to
press the diversity of complex systems into equations with
a few placeholders. This is the old way science has tried
All,
Please take good notes it would be the kind of thing that I would love to
work on as perhaps a book or pamplet once I can get myself retired and out
there.
Nick
Nicholas Thompson
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Nick and FRIAM-ers,
I assume Nick's talking about the book-development meeting. I can't be
at the meeting today, but wouldn't mind doing something on efforts to
apply complexity in real-world decision making contexts - like foreign
policy.
- Laura
On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
One of the fundamentals of start-up magazine publishing, at least in the traditional ink-on-paper sense, is that you have to have a very good idea of how large is your pool of potential advertisers, what is their advertising budget and how far out
Owen -
this kind of editorial value added is invaluable , thanks...
- Steve
On Aug 1, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
To kick off our discussions of Formalisms In Complexity, I thought
I'd add this to the mix.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
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Perhaps another theme for conversation or books would be are they
converging? It seems to me we're definitely all looking at the same
subject and making some progress, but may be heading in separate
directions. I know nature must connect them some how, but are we
discovering it?
A) Abstract
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