[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

[Phil Henshaw]

What if in ABM's the agents didn't all follow the same rules, but made up
their own.  Would it still work?

 

Phil

 

From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:39 PM
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Cc: Marcelo Chacon Reyes; Alicia Juarrero; Maria Isabel Neuman-Sega; Ania
Gonxalez Mora; Fidel Martinez Alvarez; John Casti; Jose A. Betancourt; Eloy
Ortiz Hernandez, Ph.D.
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

 

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/%7Eaxe/> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/
and specifically the link "Recent Courses" in the left column.  That will
take them to his course of last fall, "Complexity
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/PS793.pdf>  Theory in the Social
Sciences."  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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