Posted by Douglas Roberts-2 on URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/pluralism-in-science-tp7582640p7582663.html
When you're simulating all 370 million residents of the US in a pandemic influenza model, all of the parameters listed below are, well, represented parametrically. The idea is to get a gross measure of trends, and relative assessments of the effectiveness of various intervention strategies. Not to get a "correct" answer, because as Josh Epstein would no doubt say, there is no correct answer.
I'll be eating ribs with Josh next month in Austin, I'll try to remember to ask him his opinion on this.
--Doug
Upon consideration: no I won't. We'll be eating ribs and drinking beer and having fun. Scientific philosophical discussion will not even emerge.
Get it? Emerge.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
Ron/Merle -
Is there a model of sorts for "contagious happiness"? I also
assume some of those here who use models of contagious disease
might have some meta-models to offer (Doug, show your hand)? Are
there reservoir populations? What are the non-human vectors
(pets?). Is cynicism a prophylactic? Does happiness (and
cynicism) act like quorum sensing/quenching (as with biology
and/or hive populations?) Are there memetic equivalents to the
modes of gene/protein expression?
- Steve
Merle,
I'm the developer of www.WorldHappinessMeter.com
(WHM). How can I be involved in the Happiness Santa Fe launch
on Saturday? I notice from your site that an in-depth survey is
part of the festivities. One planned addition to WHM is a
survey in order to gather data worldwide to save the need for
boots on the ground.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Merle
Lefkoff <[hidden email]>
wrote:
Roger,
Righto! We launch "Happiness Santa Fe" on Saturday (
go to our website, the Center for Emergent Diplomacy, or
just go to Happiness Santa Fe for a calendar of events).
We've had many recent conversations about how to
encourage conditions for a shift in our mental models
from consumerism and inequality toward compassion and
generosity.
When I teach Complexity at Upaya in the Buddhist
chaplaincy program I usually suggest that compassion is
an emergent property of the biggest system of all--our
brains. So I say, hey guys, just meditate more! We
have hard neuroscience on how that works. But how do we
change the initial conditions for a collective response?
Perhaps one way is to measure human happiness and
well-being differently by expanding GDP to include
ecological and social indicators as the Bhutanese have
been trying to do for decades. We tend to value what we
measure.
You know, dear Roger, that I follow the research
carefully. Thanks for this link. You guys study--we
act and put it on the ground!!
Merle
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM,
Roger Critchlow <[hidden email]> wrote:
There's an intriguing book review in
Science this week:
Studying
Human Behavior How
Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality by
Helen E. Longino University
of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013. 261 pp. S75.
ISBN 9780226492872. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN
9780226492889.
The claim is that there is not and will not be
a dominant paradigm for researching human
behavior, there are multiple ways of establishing
causes for behavior and that's just the way it is.
So not only do phenomena worth studying emerge
at different levels of organization, but the
emerging phenomena at a level of organization are
amenable to different disciplines of study which
may all be judged "scientific" by a philosopher of
science.
So, what's scientific evidence now?
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