I'm curious, Jochen: what do you mean by "solving the problem of" emergence? Understanding it? Will never happen -- everybody has their own 'correct' working definition of "emergence". Define it? Ditto. Recognizing it? Ditto.
On the other hand, though, the image of a bunch of unemployed complexity scientists is oddly compelling... --Doug On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Even if you have solved the problem of emergence > (was there any?) and all problems related to it, > are you sure that people want it to be solved? > 90% of papers on complexity and social simulation > explicitly refer to emergence, i.e. emergent > processes, properties, dynamics, and patterns. > If you have indeed solved everything related to > emergence, everyone else working in complexity > science would become jobless immediately.. > > By the way did you notice that Libya's president > Gaddafi proposed the UN to abolish and dismantle > Switzerland? Somehow you have got to like this > eccentric behavior.. http://is.gd/2VI3H > > -J. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Abbott > To: [email protected] ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group > Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:02 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] emergence > > > Do you mean Bedau and Humphreys? Also, I hope you read my paper, "The > reductionist blind spot." As I said I've solved the problem of emergence. > It's no longer the mystery Bedau and Humphreys make it out to be. > Consequently the papers in their book are fairly obsolete. Of course you > will make up your own minds about that. But at least give yourself the > chance to reach that conclusion. > > -- Russ > > > ============================================================ > 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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