Deb, where did you tke this 3ton cybergarbage administrative mess from, included in this message? First I thought that the gramma-witness joke came from me...
Complexity, Management and Change Workshop Wednesday 30th April You are invited to the Open University in Milton Keynes to participate in a one day workshop on...
It seems as though there are some pretty smart people here. So. let me surface a couple of questions that I can't answer (yes, I'll admit it). First - the...
John, Thank you for "super-churning" me right back - I guess I deserved that. For a fifth language, your use of English is very good - I'm impressed. I also...
This book has not yet been released (it should be availible any day now - you can still get it at the pre-release price). However, at the publisher's website,...
Steven, thanks for a detailed response. I remember Rene Thom (Tom?) from some glance-readings (no notes) long ago, I considered it a 'semantic antique' to call...
John, Interesting ideas from Thom. Yes, it is certainly possible to speculate beyond our epistemic ability. It may be that we must do that from time to time to...
Steven and fellow Complexifiers, It is very important to keep in mind in discussions like these that mathematical formulae are most useful in physics because...
The strengh of a computer chess program is its abilty to see millions of options if a few seconds. The computer is programmed by a human or a team of humans....
from Lewis L Smith Tom's distinction between "complicated" and "complex" is well taken. There are many things which are complicated --- such as chess...
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Dear Lewis, your post is commendable and remarkable (please allow me the grammatically correct (!) pun:) so I make a remark to it. I don't feel like one of...
from Lewis L Smith Take your time. Always good to hear from you. ### ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. ...
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The basic rules of chess may not be complex, but the learning required by a computer to beat a human, does involve complexity. But you make an interesting...
Buck, Good to see you online. I just have a second. Why isn't consciousness, free will, a wild card? And why can't living systems be modeled mathematically, if...
Jon, Consciousness, free will, and the unconscious are all in the same category - highly complex mental processes which cannot be predicted accurately at the...
Thanks Buck, Good answer. I think these two questions and the answer you've given, sums up so much about the complexity paradigm, and the difference between ...
Jon et al., Interesting train of thought. In recent days I have been thinking about writing an essay or book entitled, "Post-Scientific Thinking." So many ...
Buck, I appreciate your clear words - as always - not 'exactly' my vocabulary, but close. I am burried under response-debt and procrastinated, because I wanted...
from Lewis L Smith Preliminary note >>> In the scientific world, a "conjecture" is an idea which hasn't been put into testable form. A "hypothesis"...
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Buck, (and this may weave in with others... hold on to your threads), You note the increasing complexity as we move up the pyramid. Something I agree with....
Buck, I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm continually explaining (or shifting vocabulary, as needed). of course, any paradigm will defend itself... that...
Steve, True. But remember, it was the scientists of the day, the established scientific paradigm which was woven into Church doctrine, that reacted against...
from Lewis L Smith Ref recent posts on Galileo. My understanding is that the burning of Bruno at the stake is a much clearer case of a human rights...
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List: I am curious about individual responses to the new proposals for a unified regulatory system for financial markets, announced today. I take it as a given...
Jerry, A Complexity approach would be bottom-up, but this involves top-down control, so it is the antithesis of a Complexity approach, although obviously some...
Buck, I like your approach. In Jerry's question (I did not read those 'regulatory' plans) - nice metaphor - the problem is multiple (you can call it complex)...
Buck writes: A Complexity approach would be bottom-up, but this involves top-down control, so it is the antithesis of a Complexity approach, although obviously...
All, Just to give you early notice of this forthcoming event in Manchester, England: "Is complexity the new framework for management and public policy in the ...
Paper call Second Conference on Emergent Order and Society The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is seeking...
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