Re: Any non-biological complex systems?

Posted by Owen Densmore on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Any-non-biological-complex-systems-tp7589731p7589748.html

The physical examples like Saturn's pole formation is "complex" due to its being an attractor state, I believe.

If I were doing a search for complex phenomena, which actually is a nifty idea, I'd first tweet Melanie Mitchell, or Mark Newman, or ask Stephen, but then I'd look for:

- tipping points

- equilibria

- fractal formations

- unstable systems (reverse of equilibra?)

- sigmoidal graph of a variable

You might like this, I'm following it:

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/74-introduction-to-complexity-spring-2017

Post back if you find something satisfying.

   -- Owen

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:51 AM, ┣glen┫ <[hidden email]> wrote:

The concept of an agent is even more ill-formed than that of complexity or emergence.  All the well-defined versions of the concept tighten it down to specific domains.  So, you'd have to refine your question even more in order to get a coherent answer.

On 05/24/2017 11:00 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
> What about my revised question. Can we think of anything that is
> non-biological, non-human, and not a biological or human artifact that
> would qualify as an agent based system?

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␦glen?

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