[FRIAM] Flame Warriors

2006-06-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
If a discussion forum has an ecology of antagonists, perhaps I am a bit too much of a philosopher here. What kind of flame warrior are you ? http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/philosopher.htm -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] The edge of the universe

2006-07-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
Remember this classic game ? One of the first video games. http://www.bofunk.com/video/594/funny_pong_flash.html also available here http://www.freeonlinegames.com/play/2280.html -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the mark of the vital

2006-07-18 Thread Jochen Fromm
I must admit I was not fully aware of the philosophical background for intentionality http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/ Maybe I confused intentionality with intentions. I am not sure what intentionality really means. Nevertheless, the aspect of intentionality as

[FRIAM] Europe feels the heat

2006-07-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
A heat wave is sweeping Europe with temperatures exceeding those on the Mediterranean coast. Whole Europe is struggling under the high temperatues, except a few hard boiled nudists.. http://www.nudisttrampolining.com/ FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] real tinking

2006-07-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting book ! Much more interesting than the bad complexity book from Remo Badii and Antonio Politi that gets dusty somehwere on my bookshelf. Even if it is from Cambridge University Press, the Badii and Politi book is one of those disappointing books that you put down again soon

[FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
That's strange, in my Mozilla Thunderbird (IMAP) e-Mail client I can see the response from Russel before the original mail from Nick about Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47. Microsoft's Outlook displays it in the correct order: Dates in Outlook Russel's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:09 Nick's Mail

Re: [FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, you are right. If I sort after the remote sender's time, Outlook shows the wrong message order, too. -J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Eldridge Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:01 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] FRIAM book

2006-07-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
The recent discussion about the advances in the field of complexity science and Owen's question about a sound basis for discussions about complex systems caused me to think about the current state of the field and its literature. Perhaps a definite book is missing. Won't it be an interesting

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM book

2006-07-30 Thread Jochen Fromm
Such a book should of course contain a big cautionary note on the use of buzzwords. Buzzwords are especially frequent in the area of complex systems, they are helpful to sell something, but sometimes problematic in order to understand something. Self-organization, emergence, and edge of chaos

Re: [FRIAM] WedTech: Formalisms In Complexity; Wed Aug 2, 1:30p @ Tesoro

2006-08-02 Thread Jochen Fromm
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

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3

2006-08-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Perhaps the best way to solve complex problems is to let your guts decide ? What did Stephen Colbert say at the White House Correspondents Dinner ? ..That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut, see http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879 -J.

[FRIAM] Buzzwords

2006-08-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
Whoa. Three buzzwords in a row: non-linearity, emergence and complexity. You forgot non-equilibrium and edge of chaos. How does this sound like: a revolutionary paradigm shift towards a variety of non-linear, non-equilibrium patterns out of the loop at the edge of chaos that are uniquely

[FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling of a Blowback - How Terrorists are made

2006-08-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
If the USA delivers weapons and military knowledge to autonomous parties in instable countries like Israel, Afghanistan and the former Iraq and even trains people there to fight, it is of course not surprising at all (perhaps even unavoidable) that eventually these weapons will be used for an

Re: [FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling

2006-08-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
I am not sure if agent-based modelling offers better insight than the knowledge of history combined with common sense, but it is probably much better than Game Theory and pure mathematical analysis. One problem is the myriad ways in which actors in societies can interact with each other: if

Re: [FRIAM] Social networking sites

2006-08-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
Good idea, but a lot of others had it, too. There is already a large number of social networking sites with web interfaces that are building and organizing themselves. For example, to name a few, http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://groups.msn.com/ http://www.myspace.com/

Re: [FRIAM] gintis's Game Theory Evolving

2006-08-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
It seems to be a compilation of dozens and dozens of games with groovy names and silly stories. Is this what game theory IS when one gets close to it? ..the game I have spent most time thinking about ... Tragedy of the Commons type games lke PD games.are actually a narrow category of

Re: [FRIAM] The art of agent-based modeling

2006-08-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Of course it is the essence of science to verify hypotheses by experiments. Yet sometimes we have neither suitable experimental data nor a solid theory, for example in the case of very large agent-based systems (for instance for the self-organization and self-management of large internet

Re: [FRIAM] Visual statistics

2006-08-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nice Flash graphics. Google also has a video about it here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7996617766640098677 -J. From: Tom Johnson Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:55 AM Subject: [FRIAM] Visual statistics For those of us interested in the

[FRIAM] Cubicle War at YouTube

2006-08-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
Windward Reports: Cubicle War 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOTBWlt0-Y0 If wonder if the three YouTube founders Chad Hurley Steve Chen and Jawed Karim will manage to sell YouTube and become millionaires ? YouTube.com has allegedly 50 employees and enough server capacity to stream more

[FRIAM] Free Classic Books From Google Book Search

2006-08-30 Thread Jochen Fromm
Google's Book Search service offers searchers free downloadable PDF files of classic titles like Dante's Divine Comedy, Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and Aesop's Fables, as well as other books no longer under copyright

[FRIAM] Google buys YouTube

2006-10-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
Chad Hurley has made it. Google pays $1.65 Billion Dollar for his company YouTube, although YouTube is making more debts than profit, and similar to many P2P file-sharing systems, YouTube's popularity comes from allegedly free content (music videos, TV series,..), i.e. from copyright

[FRIAM] Growth (was Re: so what would be wrong with saying what you think?)

2006-10-13 Thread Jochen Fromm
it's also possible that my statement of what seems to be the most fascinating and relevant problem of our times is incomplete, and I very openly welcome contributions to how it should be posed It seems to be a bit incomplete indeed. If I understand you right, you want us to formulate

Re: [FRIAM] searchmash

2006-10-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
I was wondering why SearchMash is so fast and precise until I noticed that is operated by Google. Perhaps it is faster because it shows no ads... How much better would the internet be without all these annoying ads. On the other hand we would not have Google then either, which seems to turn into

Re: [FRIAM] Animation via Behavior: Killer Game Programming in Java

2006-10-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
Is someone interested in modifying an existing 3D engine for agent based modeling ? I am thinking of a complex virtual world with a number of different scenarios, for instance a crowded city, a small village, a clear forest or whatever, where the actors can be controlled by programs or humans.

[FRIAM] A 9D model for a chaos-hyperchaos transition

2006-11-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Scholarpedia http://www.scholarpedia.org is similar to Wikipedia. The difference is that each article is written by an expert (invited or elected), each article is anonymously peer reviewed, and each article has a curator or editor. We had similar ideas for our own DCS-Wiki at

Re: [FRIAM] A 9D model for a chaos-hyperchaos transition

2006-11-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Urgs, at least two slips of the pen in one post. Sorry. Larry Sanger's new CITIZENDIUM (a compendium of knowledge similar to Wikipedia - short for the citizen's compendium) at http://citizendium.org/ seems to go in a similar direction. A Slashdot discussion can be found here

[FRIAM] WE-SYP Program

2006-11-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Microsoft's new We Share Your Pain (WSYP) Program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c0YSsF_O0 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

[FRIAM] Vidal's new book about multiagent systems

2006-11-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
Jose M. Vidal is writing a textbook about the fundamentals of multiagent systems, see http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/lib/vidalfmas.html The book emphasizes the game theoretical foundations of multiagent research and combines them with hands-on experimentation of system dynamics using NetLogo

Re: [FRIAM] REPOST: The meaning of inner.

2008-07-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
If you were to go about programming a computer to think about itself, how would you do it? Even if we program a computer to think about itself, the computer would be extremely bored, because he is as intelligent as a cash register or washing machine. He just follows commands, only extremely

Re: [FRIAM] REPOST: The meaning of inner.

2008-07-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
In my opinion, biologically detailed large-scale models of the brain offer little value if the system is not embedded in a physical world. It is a first step in the right direction to examine vision. The brain is an adaptive system which becomes useless if it is cut off the environment. This

[FRIAM] The society of mind

2008-07-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
Can we describe the mind as a society of agents? Marvin Minsky has written a book about the topic, and Steven Pinker speculates about it in How the Mind works. How would the basic emotions we pain/displeasure and joy/pleasure look like? How does self-consciousness fit into this picture? I have

Re: [FRIAM] The society of mind

2008-07-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
I guess you mean the following article from AI Magazine: From Society to Landscape: Alternative Metaphors for AI http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFile/896/814 Interesting. I have read The society of Mind a few years ago - at least large parts of it - and I don't remember

Re: [FRIAM] The Brain and Creativity

2008-07-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, maybe creativity is the point where art, science and engineering meet each other. To create a new piece of art, to find a new theory, and to find a new way to construct something is similar: it is difficult, it requires experience and sometimes luck, and it is often considered as a

Re: [FRIAM] The Brain and Creativity 2

2008-08-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Everything we do is only a recombination or reuse of already existing tools, techniques or substances. Even creative insights only rely on already existing thoughts and ideas. What was special about Einstein and Newton was perhaps that they were visionary: they were able to recombine and

Re: [FRIAM] The Brain and Creativity 2

2008-08-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
To prevent that the creativity discussion drowns in the archives of the FRIAM mailing list, I have added a page about creativity with the article from Orlando, some thoughts of Günther and the definition from Larry to the Wiki: http://sfcomplex.org/wiki/Creativity -J.

[FRIAM] sfcomplex wiki

2008-08-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
@Don: What has happend to the sfComplex Wiki? Like Nick I put some stuff in there to stimulate interesting discussions, but the Wiki suddenly vanished without a trace. It reappeared under a different URL, without pictures. Obviously there have been some upgrade/installation problems. Is it save to

Re: [FRIAM] For the physicist geeks in the group

2008-09-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
The LHC is out. The GAS is in http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/09/squirrel-smasher.html -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

Re: [FRIAM] New Journal

2008-10-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
Where in the hype cycle are autonomous agents now? http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/18/where-are-we-in-the-hype-cycle/ They are quite popular for ABM, but for software development purposes they seem to have disappeared. Are there any attempts to use agents in cloud computing (perhaps together

[FRIAM] 2008 Midwest NKS Conference

2008-10-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
The 2008 Midwest NKS Conference deals with the questions What is Computation? How Does Nature Compute?. Today I stumbled upon a temporary page related to it containing some interesting resources with preparatory material from Gregory Chaitin, Seth Lloyd, Ed Fredkin and Stephen Wolfram. Check it

[FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come

2008-10-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
Did you know that 8 out of 10 from the biggest companies of the world live from oil or oil-consuming products? I think the true crisis is still to come, see http://blog.cas-group.net/2008/10/the-true-crisis-is-still-to-come/ -J.

Re: [FRIAM] Election: Why So Close

2008-10-31 Thread Jochen Fromm
Maybe it has to be close, because the media wants it to be close. It has to be an exciting event and a big show. The media wants to make lots of money with it. It is like the Formula 1: if the races are not exciting enough, simply the rules are changed or the drivers are exchanged. Why is

Re: [FRIAM] Bush deserves credit for Obama

2008-11-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting point. The church maybe deserves credit for Darwin, too (and the british regime in India for Gandhi, the communist regime in the Sovietunion for Gorbachev, the apartheid regime in South Africa for Nelson Mandela,..) Perhaps every great reformer needs a suppressing regime which goes

Re: [FRIAM] Bush deserves credit for Obama

2008-11-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, maybe, but in the eyes of the international community George W. Bush has a disastrous image. John Clesse has described it well here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR3eUjD6y6o -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] The Black Swan

2008-11-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
I am currently trying to read Taleb's Black Swan. Paul and Glen mentioned it earlier a few weeks ago, and Russ said it has some nice points. So I read the first chapter and thought well, interesting. Then I read the second about Yevgenia Krasnova, a fictional character which embodies his anger

Re: [FRIAM] Strogatz and Ratti video conversation

2008-11-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
Who said that cities are thriving places for humans? I live in Berlin, which is not as big as London or Tokio, but it is loud, crowded and polluted enough. It is more exhausting than exciting to live here. Lots of carcinogenic and pathogenic substances in the air. You meet every day different

[FRIAM] Airline fee

2008-11-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=23707 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Science and Art

2008-12-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
Maybe interesting for the sfX ? http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/01/the_future_of_scienceis_art.php -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,

Re: [FRIAM] Poll: which agent-based model is most fundamental?

2009-01-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Thus spake Glen e. p. Ropella: I think the question is ill-formed. Agent-based _models_ are just models. The phrase agent-based model is context free, unlike physics or biology. And without context, there isn't any one model that's more fundamental than any other model. Good point. In

Re: [FRIAM] Classification of ABM's

2009-01-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Phylogenetic trees and cladistics are useful to understand any evolutionary or complex adaptive system. I am not sure if a phylogenetic tree for ABMs itself makes sense. Of course we can try to categorize them by a taxonomy. On the NetLogo models pages we find the following categories: * Art

[FRIAM] Painting and the Pleistocene

2009-01-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
Maybe interesting for the SFComplex ? http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/painting_and_the_pleistocene_1.php -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: boy bud

2009-02-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
Great, reminds me of this old joke about Referend Dan .. Reverend Dan was selling his horse. He placed his add in the paper and soon a buyer came calling. The buyer looked over the horse and decided the price was right for such a fine animal. Rev. Dan explained to the gentleman that the horse

Re: [FRIAM] The reductionist blind spot

2009-02-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting article. In principle, all the different sciences are just one science at a different level of abstraction. Would you agree with the following statements: ( weak and strong terms in the sense of http://www.cas-group.net/wiki/Emergence ) A case of weak emergence requires a higher

Re: [FRIAM] The reductionist blind spot

2009-02-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
: Ted Carmichael To: Jochen Fromm Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The reductionist blind spot Hey, Jochen. Yeah, I struggle with these definitions myself. I tend to think best with examples and anecdotes, as opposed to abstractions. That is, I usually understand

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence: The No-Stats All-Star

2009-02-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
Some memes and social rituals can behave like group genes - for example the ten commandments of the bible, or religions in general. They use groups as throw-away vehicles to lever themselves into the next generation. The founder of the Christian religion said For where two or three are gathered

Re: [FRIAM] Agent-based market models

2009-04-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
The central property which emerges in markets is the price. The central law which rules markets is the law of supply and demand. A basic agent-based model for markets should explain how both, the price and the law of supply and demand, emerge in competitive markets. It should be simple to extend

Re: [FRIAM] Agent-based market models

2009-04-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
I found this link on markets today: it says it is precisely the less complex systems that can be planned and the more complex systems that must develop spontaneously. Quite paradox. http://www.libertarianism.org/ex-9.html It says nothing about the invisible hand from Adam Smith, though. Do you

[FRIAM] How many years left

2009-04-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/26051202.jpg FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in theNatural Sciences

2009-04-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
That's true. Interesting observation. -J. - Original Message - From: Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net To: Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:13 AM Subject: [FRIAM] The

Re: [FRIAM] H1N1 Swine Google Mashup

2009-04-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
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[FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in Complex Systems

2009-04-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
If physics is so successfully described by mathematics because the physical world is mathematical, and nearly isomorphic to a mathematical structure, then maybe complex systems are so successfully described by ABMs because their are isomorphic to them, too. Complex systems, especially social

[FRIAM] Online university

2009-05-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
I am currently reading a book about Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, two German scientists of the 19th century. Wilhelm von Humboldt founded the Humboldt Universität 1810 in Berlin. Recently you discussed a city university for Santa Fe. In the 21st century, wouldn't it be nice to have a real

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-05-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
The FRIAM Lists seems to focus itself more and more about local topics related to Santa Fe (i.e. food and Italian restaurants, the city university of Santa Fe, ..). Therefore I have created a new mailing list about Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and related topics: agent-based models, complex

[FRIAM] The ghost in the machine (was 'quick question')

2009-06-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Exactly, I think it is a useless and void concept if one defines it in this way. It makes sense the other way round: the stronger the emergence, the weaker the causal dependence. Yet although we agree there is no mysterious downward causation, we can without doubt consciously influence the

Re: [FRIAM] The ghost in the machine (was 'quick question')

2009-06-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
The question was why do many of us have the belief that they can move their body in a certain direction if they want to do it voluntarily or consciously? The belief must be based on a perception of a process or interaction. If downward causation is like self-consciousness an illusion, then what

Re: [FRIAM] The ghost in the machine (was 'quick question')

2009-06-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Your paper Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital seems to fit better. It argues that it is unnecessary to reconcile the mental with the material if we consider the mental as intentional, and gives the example A did D because A desired (wanted, believed..) [x] For example I can move my arm

Re: [FRIAM] The ghost in the machine (was 'quick question')

2009-06-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
That's true, but another fundamental feature of metaphors is the insight they provide by understanding one thing in terms of another. I think it is this double aspect of metaphors which is partly responsible for the puzzling feeling caused by self-consciousness. -J. - Original

[FRIAM] The FRIAM mind (was: 'Do robots dream of electric illusions? or Bladerunner, theRealist's Cut')

2009-06-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
You are talking about the list as if it is a single entity (let us see how 'the list' responds), although it is composed of several independent individuals: Russ, Stephen, Glen, Douglas, to name a few. Can we think of the mind as a similar kind of list or group, which is composed of several

[FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
In this post, Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that it is futile to use the word emergence. Do you agree? http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

[FRIAM] The whole minus the parts

2009-07-18 Thread Jochen Fromm
Already Aristotle knew emergence: he said the whole is sometimes more than the sum of its parts (*). Do we get the essence of emergence if we take the whole minus the parts? (*) He considered the question of unity for aggregated things which have several parts and in which the totality is

Re: [FRIAM] More in heaven and earth!

2009-07-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
I guess this is not what Shakespeare had in mind, but in complexity theory, the whole is typically more than the parts. For example if we take a team or group, and remove all the members, we are left with the common intentions and beliefs (for example the common vision or the shared goal),

Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-22 Thread Jochen Fromm
Today I stumbled upon this link from John Resig, the creator and lead developer of jQuery: http://ejohn.org/blog/web-workers/ -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,

Re: [FRIAM] Git -- Anyone get it?

2009-07-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
Too many branches are confusing in both version controls, in SVN and Git alike. Both are doing basically the same thing (like Test::Unit and RSpec). It is easy to make a new branch in SVN, too, but the problems arise if you make different changes in different branches. It is confusing to have

Re: [FRIAM] manifold in mathematics

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
This is an interesting use of manifold. In mathematics, a manifold has a well-defined meaning. The structure of a manifold is encoded by a collection of charts that form an atlas. A chart is a mapping between the manifold and a simple (euclidean) space, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold

Re: [FRIAM] manifold in mathematics

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
A manifold can be described as a complex patchwork made of many patches. If we try to describe self-consciousness as a manifold then we get - the patch of a strange loop associated with insight in confusion (according to Douglas Hofstadter) - the patch of an imaginary center of narrative

[FRIAM] ABMs and Plays

2009-08-22 Thread Jochen Fromm
I am currently reading the Shakespeare biography from Peter Ackroyd. While reading this interesting work, I wondered if agent based models and plays can be considered as two extremes on one scale. In both we witness the outcome of a small number of agents or actors interacting with each other

Re: [FRIAM] ABMs and Plays

2009-08-23 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, every performance of a play is in fact a bit different, but the outcome is always the same. I was more interested in the question if plays can be considered as a kind of model for systems with complex BDI agents and abstract rules. If a developer programs an object-oriented system, he

Re: [FRIAM] Rule driven agent-based modeling systems

2009-08-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
Russ, what's the matter with you? Why being so rude and evil? I personally don't like arrogant people, even worse are arrogant and ignorant people. The response from Eric was neither, he was polite and tried to be helpful. I can see nothing wrong with that. How can we know what you want to do if

[FRIAM] Psychology Blogs

2009-09-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs, which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

Re: [FRIAM] Fascism and ettiquette

2009-09-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
I guess he means the Italian author Umberto Eco. In a 1995 essay Eternal Fascism, Eco attempts to list general properties of fascist ideology. I would add lack of differentiation, uncontrolled growth beyond the normal limits, invasion of adjacent systems, and generally malignant, agressive

Re: [FRIAM] emergence

2009-09-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
Even if you have solved the problem of emergence (was there any?) and all problems related to it, are you sure that people want it to be solved? 90% of papers on complexity and social simulation explicitly refer to emergence, i.e. emergent processes, properties, dynamics, and patterns. If you

Re: [FRIAM] emergence

2009-09-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
So the insight you have brought to the world is that the best way to understand emergence is through the lens of implementation - emergent properties can be described as a high level abstraction which is implemented by low level elements. Right? It seems to me that you have just invented a new

Re: [FRIAM] I'm looking for a word

2009-09-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
What about Transmogrifier? I guess this is not word you have been looking for, but did you that a Transmogrifier is indeed a small “wrapper” method used to propagate a method/property implemented in another subsidiary object? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmogrifier_(computer_science) -J.

[FRIAM] ABMs and Psychology (was Re:FW:Re:Re:WTF: Faith and Science (was comm.))

2009-09-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
It is true, many terms in Psychology and Sociology are abstract and unreal. You mentioned personality, extroversion, emotional intelligence, in-group preference,.. For social systems, many abstract concepts like power and freedom become concrete, observable and measurable phenomena if we consider

Re: [FRIAM] ABMs and Psychology

2009-09-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
In Physics, energy, mass, force and momentum are abstract terms, too, but they have a concrete mathematical meaning. We model physical processes as interactions among variables. Unless we don't use mathematical equations like F=ma, the terms remain unreal, abstract and vague. In Sociology and

Re: [FRIAM] The victims of the H1N1 virus

2009-09-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
Fact is: there was a strong hype around H1N1, although H1N1 itself is known since 1976. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza#1976_U.S._outbreak And there are large pharmaceutical companies who are very interested in informing the public how dangerous H1N1 is. Hoffmann-La Roche produces

[FRIAM] Cloud computing

2009-10-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
The Economist has interesting articles about cloud computing and the end of an era in computing (by the way the Eucalyptus cloud seems to offer the same API as Amazon EC2). Clash of the clouds http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14637206 Battle of the clouds

[FRIAM] In the theater of consciousness

2009-10-22 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nick, what do you think as a Psychologist of Baars's Global Workspace Theory where he explores the consciousness is a theater metaphor? Is this a modern perspective suitable for a computational model to bridge the gap betwen Psychology and Neuroscience? Do you think there is a layer or mesh

Re: [FRIAM] In the theater of consciousness

2009-10-23 Thread Jochen Fromm
There is a difference between Dennett and Baars, Dennett says the theater metaphor is not useful to understand consciousness. He argues in consciousness explained what consciousness is not: it is not happening in a Catesian theater where a single person, the self, sits before a large stage or

Re: [FRIAM] In the theater of consciousness

2009-10-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes. You can find the text of his 1988 book A cognitive theory of consciousness there. I borrowed it this week from the university library (we have got a new one here in Berlin, see here http://bit.ly/2ELIaK ). The theory seems to be rather weak, I think the best thing in his theory is the

Re: [FRIAM] In the theater of consciousness

2009-10-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
, in both of them there are always a lot of people watching (the unconscious elements), and only a few are moving around in the spotlight (the conscious ones). -J. - Original Message - From: ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu To: Jochen Fromm jfr...@t-online.de Cc: The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Owen and the Mac

2009-11-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
Cool, do you remember the time with Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson and Steve Jobs? Recently I read one of the biographies about Steve Jobs (Icon from Jeffrey Young and William L. Simon). Both Hertzfeld and Atkinson are mentioned in the book, but no word of Owen Densmore. They must have missed

Re: [FRIAM] Owen and the Mac

2009-11-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
Here is another picture http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintoshgallery=1 Somehow Steve Jobs got all the money, Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson got all the glory, and you got all the hard work? What a distribution. My first task in my first job after university was working

Re: [FRIAM] From Tibet to the edge of The Universe and back in 6:31video: Rich Murray 2009.12.19

2009-12-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nice video. How small our pale blue dot is.. The number of spiral arms in the Milky Way seems to be too small, and it is missing the central bar. The real Milky Way looks more like this http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050825.html -J.

Re: [FRIAM] From Tibet to the edge of The Universe and backin6:31video: Rich Murray 2009.12.19

2009-12-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
Merlin Donald makes in his book A mind so rare (p.100) an interesting comparison of astronomy with neuroanatomy: The brain's three-dimensional complexity makes its examination and its visualization very difficult. In comparison, the ancient astronomers had it easy. They recorded and rerecorded

[FRIAM] Multiagent Systems

2010-01-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
A new MAS book from Yoav Shoham and Kevin Leyton-Brown, published by Cambridge University Press in 2009: http://www.masfoundations.org/download.html Jose M. Vidal has also written a similar book about the Fundamentals of MAS here (with NetLogo examples)

Re: [FRIAM] any citations for cloud-based scientific simulations

2010-01-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
Maybe this link is useful? Computing in the Cloud for Cancer http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/01/cloudcancer.php -J. - Original Message - From: glen e. p. ropella g...@agent-based-modeling.com To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Steven Strogatz in NYTimes starting a column on math

2010-02-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
There is an interesting new book from Steven Strogatz named The Calculus of Friendship (Princeton University Press, 2009) http://bit.ly/3r2Ifz -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] Interest rates are boring

2010-02-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Have you heard of this? A bored bank employee is looking at nude photos of Miranda Kerr live on TV.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfX0yHTztNg ..maybe time to get a laptop? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjL5SiFSsA -J. FRIAM

[FRIAM] Manhattan's Population

2010-02-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
This illustration of Manhattan's population reminds me of an MRI scan. What do you think, can we draw any connection between cities and complex adaptive systems in general? They consume resources and produce waste, grow and pulsate rhythmically, just like a living organism..

[FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

2010-02-13 Thread Jochen Fromm
In a recent washingtonpost.com article named Erasing our innovation deficit ( http://bit.ly/cG6vGW ) Eric Schmidt said We have been world leaders in [technological] innovation for generations. It has driven our economy, employment growth and our rising prosperity. [..] We can no longer rely on

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