RE: [Fis] Social and Cultural Complexity

2006-12-21 Thread Pedro Marijuan
Dear Loet and colleagues, see interleavings: At 20:49 19/12/2006, you wrote: Dear Pedro: 1. You are changing the subject from "social and cultural complexity" to "the nature of complexity". Thus, our previous communications seem to be discardable as "irrelevant." ... I don't expect anybody t

RE: [Fis] Social and Cultural Complexity

2006-12-19 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Pedro: 1. You are changing the subject from "social and cultural complexity" to "the nature of complexity". Thus, our previous communications seem to be discardable as "irrelevant." Initially, I do not find Stan, Guy and Loet's responses convincing enough. Properly speaking about the s

RE: [Fis] Social and Cultural Complexity

2006-12-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Pedro and collegaues, Anyhow, my general opinion on the problem of social complexity is that, like its homonymous biological counterpart, it stands beyond formal approaches, at the time being. Let us remind the recent exchanges on "biological computation"... If so, requests to directly algo