Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Apr 29, 2009; 2:31am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-The-unreasonable-Effectiveness-of-ABMs-in-ComplexSystems-tp2737192p2738279.html
I wish the hell some you smart folks were reading this book with me:
Bedau and Humphreys, EMERGENCE. MIT 2008.
Does anybody know a good philosopher or two with time on their hands?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (
[hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella <
[hidden email]>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> Date: 4/28/2009 4:02:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in
ComplexSystems
>
> 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.
>
> --
> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095,
http://agent-based-modeling.com>
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