[FRIAM] Dynamics of Complex Systems by Yaneer Bar-Yam

[Owen Densmore]

Frankly, I'm disappointed.

The FRIAM list has been through several very philosophical  
conversations over 3-4 weeks, all purporting to be "complex".  Yet  
when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.

Does this mean, for complexity, there's no There There?

Surely there is some interesting formalism we can use for  
complexity.  Robert Holmes suggested a great book to us a while back  
which I had forgotten in my initial email:
   David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
   http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/

Do we all talk about complexity yet have no basis for it?

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore
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On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> I've been looking at/for complexity books that are textbooks or
> similarly technical/mathematical.  The recent Newman, Barabasi &
> Watts collection The Structure and Dynamics of Networks is pretty
> good but I would like something broader, covering the "Complex
> Systems" world.
>
> Bar Yam's original book:
> http://tinyurl.com/mmxwp
>    or
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813341213/sr=1-1/qid=1153334623/
> ref=sr_1_1/104-7070581-5619133?ie=UTF8
> is the best I know of.  Anyone know of another?
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
> http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org
>
>
>
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