..The calculus allowed us to take certain, difficult-to-solve, nonlinear
equations and re-form them into simple linear problems. Is there a mathematics
of complex adaptive social systems that will provide a similar transformation?
Any simulation can be written as an instantiation of a recursive function,
suggesting that a given model run is nothing more than a sequence of
interconnected algebraic equations. But can we say someting more general here?
--- Miller and Page, COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, Appendix A, p234.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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