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Re: The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in ComplexSystems

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 <[hidden email]>
> 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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