[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

[Ken Lloyd]

Would it be more interesting to ask - What if in second order ABM's the
agents could differentiate meta-rules (as patterns) from rules? Could they
then apply them using evolutionary meta-genetics as a means serving as
abstraction?  Would this work in n^m-order ABM's?

Ken

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> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:20 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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> 
> Phil Henshaw wrote:
> >
> > What if in ABM's the agents didn't all follow the same 
> rules, but made 
> > up their own. Would it still work?
> >
> Roughly, models with adaptive agents and no parameters are 
> better than models with non-adaptive agents and lots of 
> unjustified parameters. Of course at some level there are 
> rules no matter what, or else it wouldn't be a model that 
> could be described and reproduced.
> 
> Marcus
> 
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