> What can complexity science do other than humble us all? If scientists > dont induct, then they dont DEduct because every deduction requires an > induction along the way. So what DO we do? Build social consensus?
Two things: 1) to evolve, and 2) to be brave to build a new kind of science... the game is about to begin again... --Mikhail ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:14 AM Subject: [FRIAM] RE Complexity and dispair. > Ok, let me ask the question less coyly. Most of the impact of complexity > has been to tunnel under and loosen the foundations of ordinary science. > Is that correct, or is it not? One of the important messages of > complexity is that no matter what we know about a process, we cannot ever > know what it is going to do next. It is like the problem of induction: > no > matter how much evidence we collect for the proposition that Grass is > green, that evidence equally supports the proposition that grass is > "grue", i.e., green up til the time we stopped measuring it, and blue > thereafter. So in order to do any inference, we have to believe aprori > that properties like grue are just shitty properties and we arent going to > consider them. But think of some of those models in A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE > that are "green" for a gazillion repllications only suddenly to bloom into > "blueness" on the 34, 739th run. Surely complexity tells us that there is > Grueness in the world. > > What can complexity science do other than humble us all? If scientists > dont induct, then they dont DEduct because every deduction requires an > induction along the way. So what DO we do? Build social consensus? > Ugh!!!! > > Nick > > > > > > > ============================================================ > 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 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
