Nick: For a good introduction to "applied" complexity, perhaps your colleagues would like to look at Robert Axelrod's home page at the Univ. of Michigan http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/ <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/> and specifically the link "Recent Courses" in the left column. That will take them to his course of last fall, "Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/PS793.pdf>." That syllabus has good hyperlinks to his class assignments and assigned reading for the course, all of which I find to be quite good and accessible.
-tom On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Colleagues at my former institution have asked me to provide a reading or > other ...... representation .... that can be consumed in less than an hour > that would give a sense of what it is "we" do in FRIAM, in Santa Fe, etc. > Hopefully not words ABOUT it but an example OF it, if you see what I mean, > but we might have to settle for words. If you had ONE SHOT at turning a > colleague into a "complexitist," what would you do with him/her. > > Does FRIAM have some suggestions???? > > A related question in my mind: if agent-based-models come closest to > capturing the essence of complexity thinking, WHY? > > Discuss. I will collect your responses and forward them on to Worcester. > > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > ============================================================ > 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 > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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