[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

[Tom Johnson]

Nick:

For a good introduction to "applied" complexity, perhaps your colleagues
would like to look at Robert Axelrod's home page at the Univ. of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/ <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/>
and specifically the link "Recent Courses" in the left column.  That will
take them to his course of last fall, "Complexity Theory in the Social
Sciences <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/PS793.pdf>."  That syllabus
has good hyperlinks to his class assignments and assigned reading for the
course, all of which I find to be quite good and accessible.

-tom

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  All,
>
> Colleagues at my former institution have asked me to provide a reading or
> other ...... representation .... that can be consumed in less than an hour
> that would give a sense of what it is "we" do in FRIAM, in Santa Fe, etc.
> Hopefully not words ABOUT it but an example OF it, if you see what I mean,
> but we might have to settle for words.  If you had ONE SHOT at turning a
> colleague into a "complexitist," what would you do with him/her.
>
> Does FRIAM have some suggestions????
>
> A related question in my mind:  if agent-based-models come closest to
> capturing the essence of complexity thinking,  WHY?
>
> Discuss.   I will collect your responses and forward them on to Worcester.
>
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)
> Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (
> nthompson at clarku.edu)
>
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