And,... how does a poll, or a military analysis tell you what emotions are going through people's minds? That kind of clairvoyance is what you're claiming, you know. It seems to me a yes/no vote has insufficient variety in comparison to thought, and a potential kill ration won't tell you if going ahead will unusually piss people off.
Phil Henshaw NY NY www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 5:35 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] models that bite back > > Phil Henshaw writes: > > A model invariably represents only a person's belief's about the > world. > > > Consider surveys of undecided voters where during a debate the surveyed > turn their individual dials to indicate approval or disapproval. > > The physical subject being represented is both fabulously more > complex than > > any belief system can be, > A library is fabulously more complex than most any individual's belief > system as well. > > and full of things that are differently organized > > and requires it's own language of description. > Military simulations, for example, are often large federated systems, > where each part is designed by a different domain expert. Some parts > of > the models could even be delegated to human decision makers, as in the > voting example. > > Complexity, subjectivity, and quantification are different issues. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > 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
