When you're simulating all 370 million residents of the US in a pandemic influenza model, all of the parameters listed below are, well, represented parametrically. The idea is to get a gross measure of trends, and relative assessments of the effectiveness of various intervention strategies. Not to get a "correct" answer, because as Josh Epstein would no doubt say, there is no correct answer.
I'll be eating ribs with Josh next month in Austin, I'll try to remember to ask him his opinion on this. --Doug Upon consideration: no I won't. We'll be eating ribs and drinking beer and having fun. Scientific philosophical discussion will not even emerge. Get it? Emerge. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron/Merle - > > > > Is there a model of sorts for "contagious happiness"? I also assume some > of those here who use models of contagious disease might have some > meta-models to offer (Doug, show your hand)? Are there reservoir > populations? What are the non-human vectors (pets?). Is cynicism a > prophylactic? Does happiness (and cynicism) act like quorum > sensing/quenching (as with biology and/or hive populations?) Are there > memetic equivalents to the modes of gene/protein expression? > > > > - Steve > > Merle, > I'm the developer of www.WorldHappinessMeter.com (WHM). How can I be > involved in the Happiness Santa Fe launch on Saturday? I notice from your > site that an in-depth survey is part of the festivities. One planned > addition to WHM is a survey in order to gather data worldwide to save the > need for boots on the ground. > > Ron > > -- > Ron Newman, Founder > MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> > The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Roger, >> >> Righto! We launch "Happiness Santa Fe" on Saturday ( go to our >> website, the Center for Emergent Diplomacy, or just go to Happiness Santa >> Fe for a calendar of events). We've had many recent conversations about >> how to encourage conditions for a shift in our mental models from >> consumerism and inequality toward compassion and generosity. >> >> When I teach Complexity at Upaya in the Buddhist chaplaincy program I >> usually suggest that compassion is an emergent property of the biggest >> system of all--our brains. So I say, hey guys, just meditate more! We >> have hard neuroscience on how that works. But how do we change the initial >> conditions for a collective response? Perhaps one way is to measure human >> happiness and well-being differently by expanding GDP to include ecological >> and social indicators as the Bhutanese have been trying to do for decades. >> We tend to value what we measure. >> >> You know, dear Roger, that I follow the research carefully. Thanks for >> this link. You guys study--we act and put it on the ground!! >> >> Merle >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There's an intriguing book review in Science this week: >>> >>> *Studying Human Behavior* How Scientists Investigate Aggression and >>> Sexuality *by Helen E. Longino* University of Chicago Press, Chicago, >>> 2013. 261 pp. S75. ISBN 9780226492872. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN 9780226492889. >>> >>> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/146.1.full?rss=1 >>> >>> The claim is that there is not and will not be a dominant paradigm for >>> researching human behavior, there are multiple ways of establishing causes >>> for behavior and that's just the way it is. >>> >>> So not only do phenomena worth studying emerge at different levels of >>> organization, but the emerging phenomena at a level of organization are >>> amenable to different disciplines of study which may all be judged >>> "scientific" by a philosopher of science. >>> >>> So, what's scientific evidence now? >>> >>> -- rec -- >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. >> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy >> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA >> [email protected] >> mobile: (303) 859-5609 >> skype: merlelefkoff >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > > > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > ============================================================ > 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 > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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