Dear FIS colleagues,
I disagree with the comments by Steven and Stan on the nature of
complexity. How can one substantiate and quantify social complexity if the
previous complexity within the society's individuals has not been solved?
At the time being, there is no accepted rigorous
Dear Pedro and colleagues,
I want to respond only to the first paragraph of your recent post.
on 12/15/06 3:11 AM, Pedro Marijuan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear FIS colleagues,
I disagree with the comments by Steven and Stan on the nature of
complexity. How can one substantiate and
Using my last posting for the week, I will support Guy's posting below: As
I pointed out in my 1985 book on scale/compositional hierarchically
organized systems, the fact that different levels cannot dynamically
interact (must be separated by order of magnitude differences if they ARE
to be
Dear List,
I agree with Stan Salthe that Tainter's kinds of complexity are not
kinds at all but simply different circumstances in which complexity
appears.
From a anthropological point of view, it should be clear that no
scholar wisely references Wikipedia unless it is to study the
Steven's criticisms of of Joseph's text are good ones. I would like to
address one question he raises:
I feel a clear definition of complexity is missing from Tainter's
discussion and I see distinct concepts being confused. I find myself, for
example, wanting a clear specification of complexity
