Seminal Papers in --- reading nature's book--

Posted by Russell Standish on Jun 17, 2007; 1:45am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Seminal-Papers-in-Complexity-tp524047p524058.html

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:15:54PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
> I mentioned it before, but it's worth mentioning again.  There's a new
> way to reveal structures of real complex physical systems that is
> amenable to analysis, that is, other than the one way we've been using
> for the past few hundred years, i.e. assigning numbers to them.
> Assigning numbers to things is what I always thought of as being the
> 'reduction' part of reductionism.  
>  

No, its the analytical part in expressions like analytical
geometry. One can be analytical without being reductionist, but it
helps to have a computer :)


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