The Wikipedia article on "Causality" is much better. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 3:27 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/29/21 12:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Steve, Is there any difference between a sequential dynamic system and a > causal system, or is the former a species of the latter? > > > > Just trying to get the words straight. > > I can't say for sure. > > > SDS's are definitely in the class of "causal systems" in general sense of > the term. Wikipedia's definition of "causal system" was a little > perplexing insomuch as it defined same more in terms of not being "acausal" > or "anticausal". I have some intuitions about what the latter might mean > but would probably continue to muddy the water by trying. It seems > relevant that the wikipedia entry for anticausal systems refers to them as > "hypothetical"? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticausal_system > > The point of SDS's are that they are a fairly general, subsuming, *formal* > description (with computer-based implementations) of causal systems. > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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