John, I tend to be a Prigoginist, see: End of Certainty, Ilya Prigogine. I suggest you consider the case for thermodynamic non-equilibrium and the problem it creates for reductionism. Some of us have come to understand complexity by modeling wavelet perturbations on temporally extended, recurrent, non-linear network graphs. The results have been very enlightening. Caveat: such results have been met with great skepticism, if not total disbelief, within the FRIAM community. Ken
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John F. Kennison Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:08 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies Hi, I have been trying to figure out what my position on reductionism might be, but I am running into problems. Does reductionism mean a belief that the best strategy is always to analyze complex things in terms of simpler components (with, I presume, a small number of irreducible parts)? Or is it a belief that everything in nature is nothing more than a sum of simple components? --John On 9/5/08 12:13 PM, "Jack Leibowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To Gunther: I dont think the word is horrible. Please note the quotes around the word in my e-mail. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Günther Greindl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies Hi, > This doesn't mean strictly remaining with restraints belonging under the > heading of that horrible word "reductionism". Why do you think that the word is horrible? (be specific please ;-) Cheers, Günther -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ Thesis: http://www.complexitystudies.org/proposal/ ============================================================ 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
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