I wish the hell some you smart folks were reading this book with me: Bedau and Humphreys, EMERGENCE. MIT 2008.
Does anybody know a good philosopher or two with time on their hands? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 4/28/2009 4:02:48 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in ComplexSystems > > Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > In the emergence literature that I am reading, one of the positions is that > > a system is emergent, if, and only if, the only way to "compute it" is with > > an ABM. > > That's too vague to warrant comment... [grin] other than to say it's too > vague to warrant comment. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > 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
