I'm not sure how the subject of measuring the depth of interaction in a
context led to Nigel's question about agent roles and understanding what
the generic processes in complexity are. I guess I see all as key to
developing a unified theory though. I think the answers may be
somewhat different for computer ecologies and physical ones, but from a
long study of physical ones the great formative processes of complex
organization are growth and decay. Both clearly display distributed
reorganization processes that are the physical thing that any observer
naturally calls the 'happening' of system events.
In natural systems the agent role is problematic, in that there do not
seem to be any 'players' available to follow any rules, that is, other
than the complex systems themselves. In computers it may be different,
but what I can find as the elemental form of system 'agents' is the
circumstantial loop which systemically develops and elaborates in the
organizational growth process.
I'm puzzled why you guys talk about studying and modeling the very same
complex systems I see in nature, and nowhere in these discussions or in
the literature of the field is it mentioned that the organization of
complex systems always develops by some kind of growth. Is it that
you don't mention the process by which things materialize because you
feel it is implied by the starting conditions, or would be if you knew
what those conditions were?
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