Interesting.  The delay business always confounds me.  In an old fashioned 
thermostat, the tightening of the coil causes the mercury vial to unbalance 
which causes the mercury to move down the vial which causes the circuit to open 
which causes the furnace to start.  Some of the events are simultaneous, some 
involve a few hundredths of a second delay;  on that ground are some causes, in 
your world, and some not?

 

Perhaps a better example is the steam governor.  The increase of the steam 
pressure causes the increased rotation of the governor causes the balls to rise 
causes the steam value to clauses… etc.  These elements are linked together by 
steel rods.  In what sense are they not occurring simultaneously, or do the 
bearings have to be loose in order for this sequence to be called causal, 
rather than constitutional (constituative?)  I guess I am worry about 
situations like the ball sorting toy in which the small yellow balls fall to 
the bottom of the toy because they are small, and not because they are yellow.  
There clearly there is NO delay, so we wont say “because the small balls fell 
to the bottom the yellow balls fell to the bottom.  Ach.  How would you talk 
about a situation like this in CMU speak.   If there is no delay, how do you 
describe the relation?

 

And yes, we are just talking about language here. 

 

N

 

Nick Thompson

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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 8:58 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

 

An element of a (very short) cycle.  Note that there has to be a delay.

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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 7:44 PM <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Frank, 

 

In your lingo, what is an effect called that feeds back on its cause?

 

Nick Thompson

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From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 7:15 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

 

Yes, for example.

 

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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 6:06 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I guess you mean A(t=0)->B(t=1), B(t=1)->A(t=2), not B(t=1)->A(t=0)

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 3:46 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

 

I did a number of experiments in the use of causal learning methods to infer 
genetic regulatory networks using actual and simulated data.  Those networks 
have loops of a variety of lengths.  References available upon request.

 

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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 4:41 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

I just don't see how that is a "loop" except that repeated application of such 
a matrix could lead to oscillation.    It sounded like somehow causality was 
violated and not just obscured.

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From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of ? glen
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

Right, high dimension. More important than the matrix being large is that it 
has non-zero cross terms.

On November 28, 2021 8:42:37 AM PST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>The operators are large (in the sense of a matrix) whether or not they are 
>intended to be?
>
>> On Nov 28, 2021, at 6:20 AM, ⛧ glen <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>> 
>> Any of the evolutionary operators across scales, from energy exchange at 
>> the finest to ecosystem reengineering at the coarsest.
>> 
>>> On November 27, 2021 7:33:15 AM PST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>>> I’ve heard these words from you Glen, but I have no idea what these loops 
>>> are or what you might be talking about.
>>> 
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glen ⛧


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