[FRIAM] complexity and emergence

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> No.  It's not stretching to say the three models are fundamentally
> different.  They _could_ be similar if one so chose.  But, in GENERAL,
> they will be fundamentally different if we don't put any constraints on
> the source or construction of the models.
Sure, if you manage to invent two entirely new ways of looking at a 
problem [the data collection plan/model and a design for a synthetic 
model].   Theoretical frameworks rarely come out of thin air -- new 
models come from extensions and tweaks to a reference model, and the 
finite gestalt of a scientific community.   That's inevitable, I think, 
unless you happen to have a topic for study that has very rich set of 
data available (that wasn't collected motivated by some hypothesis).