Nick: here's the paper Russell mentions below: http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0101006v1.pdf
Russell: is the paper a summary of the book? I realize that's out of order, the paper came first. Maybe we should finally chat about it here? -- Owen On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote: >> Russel - >> >> I only recently realized that *you* were the author of "Theory of >> Nothing"... my wife brought home a copy (she is the consummate >> hunter-gatherer of books) and I saw your name on it. I must have >> read it when it was first published (6 years ago or so?) but lost >> track of the copy... >> >> When you posted here, it made me think to follow up and surely enough! >> >> Very interesting work! Your use of the concepts of Syntactic and >> Semantic languages applied to physics models and it's relevance to >> emergence was worth the price of entry (free to me, but you get the >> point) by itself! I don't remember you weighing in when Nick was >> holding his weekly discussion group on Emergence, but this would >> have been helpful IMO! >> > > I did post a few times to the emergence discussion group, but alas > didn't find to time required to do the essential reading of the tomes > discussing emergence, so eventually had to skip the discussion. > > I have come to a particular view on complexity and emergence, through > using it in my studies of complex systems, rather than reading the > copious literature on the subject. If I had done the latter, I'm sure > I would have been lost in the mire of contradictory definitions and > positions. So I'm quite sure, that what I've published is not > particularly original, and quite probably reproduces what someone else > said in the dim, distant past. Nevertheless, my paper "On complexity > and emergence" is my second highest cited paper, with 79 cites, > according to Google Scholar. I didn't expect that :). > > Cheers > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
