On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This violates every definition of "complex" (in the "complex system" sense) > that anyone has ever tried to construct.
Except for the standard one: no analytic short-cut to predict the behavior of the whole from a description of the parts. The fact that complexity is the rule rather than the exception, is the single most important finding of complex systems theory. We (well, most of us) tend to think of it as obvious nowadays, but there was a time when people actually expected most things to have analytic short-cuts if only we knew what they were. > You have uttered this completely false statement over and over again, and > to make matters worse you have phrased it in insulting terms from the > beginning. As for the tone of the debate, I followed the other participant's lead, as I tend to; if you can't stand the heat, don't turn up the thermostat. > Bye. Bye. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
