Re: The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in ComplexSystems

Posted by glen e. p. ropella-2 on Apr 28, 2009; 10:02pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-The-unreasonable-Effectiveness-of-ABMs-in-ComplexSystems-tp2737192p2737247.html

Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> In the emergence literature that I am reading, one of the positions is that
> a system is emergent, if, and only if, the only way to "compute it" is with
> an ABM.  

That's too vague to warrant comment... [grin] other than to say it's too
vague to warrant comment.

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