Merle Lefkoff wrote at 03/26/2013 02:00 PM: > Do you guys believe the metaphor of the Edge of Chaos is applicable > here for promoting hope? I use it to say with a perfectly straight > face: this is when change is most likely to happen.
I'm not a big fan of the Edge of Chaos. It's attractive, I admit. But it seems to me that we pattern detectors do more imputing than detecting. Hence, the interestingness we see at the edge is just as false as the uninterestingness we see at either extreme. We could go back to Kauffman's paper, though, and talk about criticality and the indicators (if any) for a coming phase transition... perhaps a "mixed state"? What density/spread of 20-something activists does one need to induce a transition? -- =><= glen e. p. ropella Still so goddamn hungry ============================================================ 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
