[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

Wed Apr 9 15:32:08 EDT 2008

I think it should be an image or symbol of something living or more
specifically a living act like slowed motion of speech, gestural
communication or writing. DigitalVideo would be good.  I don't think it is
entirely limiting to have the image be human but the imagery could be
trans-species.  I don't think there is anything any more limiting about
including words than imagery so both would probably help. You might want to
even take some of the words from an actual friam. Something weblive might be
good as well and at the same time as the remote class. A drawback to this
approach is that it may lead to vanity and hubris.that would not be good.

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Of Nicholas Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:32 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

All, 

Colleagues at my former institutution 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 essense 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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