Doug, Steve,
I am a little confused about which of you is beering with Epstein, but whichever one of you it is, please take along a copy of http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/9.html and ask him what the hell he was drinking when he wrote, "Explanation …does not imply prediction." If you do download the article, please disregard the abstract which is missing a key word in its last line.
Nick
From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:42 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness
"Equilibrium", and "Josh Epstein" are not two terms that normally correlate with each other.
-Doug
On Apr 11, 2013 8:39 PM, "Steve Smith" <[hidden email]> wrote:
Doug -
I'll be eating ribs with Josh next month in Austin, I'll try to remember to ask him his opinion on this.
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.
In my experience philosophical discussions "erupt" rather than emerge... drinking beer, eating ribs, having fun, waxing philosophical all tend to follow a pattern of punctuated equilibrium...
- Steve
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