Anything where one could write down a function to give a goodness for different 
courses of action can be given names for its phases and phase transitions as 
well.   Societies transitioning toward war (gas?) from peace (liquid?), a 
person’s brain in a depressed or manic state, etc.   Not easy to write down the 
function nor make precise the courses of action, never mind sample from such a 
function.    I would like to sample from the space of Will Smith’s professional 
and domestic life and understand the specific heat to cause him to slap Chris 
Rock.    Cocaine use may be a free variable in there somewhere.

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric Charles
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 1:04 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

That is a bizarre distinction, that can only be maintained within some sort of 
odd, contextless discussion. If you tell me the number of atoms of a particular 
substance that you have smushed within a given space, we can, with reasonable 
accuracy, tell you the density, and hence the "state of matter". When we change 
the quantity of matter within that space, we can also calculate the expected 
change in temperature.

For example, when there are 25 moles of propane in the tank under my grill, the 
state of matter is liquid.



On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 8:35 PM Frank Wimberly 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From the web:

Intensive properties do not depend on the quantity of matter. Examples include 
density, state of matter, and temperature. Extensive properties do depend on 
sample size. Examples include volume, mass, and size.Dec 4, 2019

How is any of those variables emergent.
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 5:26 PM Nicholas Thompson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Jon, I am sitting outside at a Ohori‘s. Chris tells me that there’s some 
sort of giant fork cook up that’s going to happen around six or maybe seven and 
then we all should come. Not the kind of thing I could talk Kenny into I don’t 
think but it might be fun to bring the kid to. They all smell is much more 
bearable when there’s an actual smell of food mixed up in the afternoon is very 
mild and pleasant. I wanted to take a few moments to try and get my mind around 
the intensive extensive distinction I now have a way to remember which is which 
which is the intensive properties are independent of the size of the system. So 
at least I have that little bit of grip.  Song the number of altruists in a 
group is an intensive sorry sorry extensive property of the group it changes 
with the size of the system according to Siri, the functional organization of 
the group the degree of functional organization if you will varies nonlinear 
early with the number of altruist  but it does vary with the number vouchers 
and so would be also an extensive property? No according to Winsett poop so far 
as I’m concerned is the only one who makes any sense on the subject an emergent 
property contrast with an aggregate property so the number of altruists in the 
group is an aggregate property because it is insensitive to the arrangement of 
the parts when you get a property which is sensitive to the arrangement of the 
parts then you get an emergent property. So I’m trying to think of those two 
distinctions are orthogonal related to One another. I will send this message 
along now that’s where I am at the moment. I will send a message along now so 
you get the info about the pork. Since I have no computer I will probably keep 
dictating these messages to you which you are entirely entitled to ignore but 
give me a medium in which to Think. Nick
Sent from my Dumb Phone

On Mar 24, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Jon Zingale 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-wandering-domain_theorem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQkZVPU2txg&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

Been thinking about fractals and analytic continuations for recursive 
algorithms, lately. I would love to read some thoughts.

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