[FRIAM] What have the Romans - sorry - complexity done for us?

[Carlos Gershenson]

I think this discussion is productive, because it seems it is  
bringing some light and agreement on "what is complexity and what it  
is not"...

> I didn't form the question well - what I meant was: what can we do  
> now that we couldn't do 15 years before as a direct consequence of  
> advances in complexity science?

In line with what other people have said, complexity has been  
invading all sciences. e.g. you cannot do systems biology without  
taking a complexity stance, but all these advances will be seen as  
biology or medicine...
Same for other disciplines... so maybe the question could be

what can we do now that we couldn't do 15 years ago as a consequence  
of complexity thinking?

Then the list I gave earlier would be a valid answer... even if the  
advances come from physics, biology, engineering, they required ideas  
from complex systems...

Best regards,

     Carlos Gershenson...
     Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
     Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
     http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/

   “Tendencies tend to change...”


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