Re: [FRIAM] Wimsatt and robustness

2008-12-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Russ Abbott circa 11/30/2008 09:31 PM: It seems to me that most branches of modern science (particle physics, astronomy, neuro-anatomy, ...) rely on tools to see what's real, and those tools do not provide a variety of independent ways to access them. It feels initially intuitively

[FRIAM] Reading the signals of environmental systems

2008-12-01 Thread Phil Henshaw
Reading the signals of environmental systems The Reasoner, www.thereasoner.org (cc FRIAM) I’ve been working with an effective method for reading the signals of change within and for developing complex systems, for many years. It seems to have produced a list of apparently high quality

[FRIAM] Wedtech to Friam: earthquakes

2008-12-01 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear All, We have been having a discussion on a SF Site called Wedtech about the relationship between explanation, simulation, and prediction. If you want to get a sense of the starting point of that discussion, have a look at Josh Epstein's forum entry in the current JASSS, which seems to