..The calculus allowed us to take certain, difficult-to-solve, nonlinear equations and re-form them into simple linear problems. Is there a mathematics of complex adaptive social systems that will provide a similar transformation? Any simulation can be written as an instantiation of a recursive function, suggesting that a given model run is nothing more than a sequence of interconnected algebraic equations. But can we say someting more general here?
--- Miller and Page, COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, Appendix A, p234.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu)
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