[FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

[Phil Henshaw]

Marcus' question of "discrimination power" is definitely a key here.   

It's equally important, but raises additional issues when applied to
identifying the more complex characters of real undefined individual
physical systems.   I think it might be a concept of upper and lower
bounds that's is needed, topological rather than Y/N set theory.   It
will apparently take, for example, many more years for people to reach
consensus on a reasonably useful and reliable indicator of emergence.
We all agree it's a phenomenon, and have for years, but just don't
apparently know where to start to critically identify it.   You need a
different kind of lasso, it seems, than what's commonly used to rope
that one.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:32 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.
> 
> 
> Michael Agar wrote:
> > "Reflexivity" is one of those terms...  Nice and neat in set theory,
> > a relation R is reflexive in set A  iff for all a in A aRa 
> is true.  
> >   
> Question is, what is the discrimination power of R?  Does it ever say 
> false?   (Unlike, say, Freud's theories or religious dogma), 
> and if so 
> does it report `true' and `false' in any pattern that rarely 
> would occur 
> by chance?  Are their precise metrics for the features that R draws 
> upon, or does the meta-analyst just have that convenience?
> 
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