Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar II, British Emergence

2009-09-18 Thread Roger Critchlow
Maybe we should read Mill, the chapter on the composition of causes is only 5 pages: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html#toc53 -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: The seminar met this afternoon, now eight in

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar II, British Emergence

2009-09-17 Thread Russ Abbott
It seems to me that cause is an extraordinarily slippery word. I'm involved with a group of people who are looking into Causality in Complex Systemshttp://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Causality_in_complex_systems. One of the things I did while in Australia this summer was attend one or our

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar II, British Emergence

2009-09-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
/2009 10:27:51 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar II, British Emergence It seems to me that cause is an extraordinarily slippery word. I'm involved with a group of people who are looking into Causality in Complex Systems. One of the things I did while in Australia this summer was attend