[FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

[Stephen Guerin]

>
> *Marcos writes*
> The Ising model is just a model, however.


My example was the *physical phenomena* of ferromagnetism not the Ising
model that describes it. Eg heat up a physical magnet past its critical
point (Curie temperature) and the metal loses its alignment/magnetic
polarity as a collective property. from wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature:
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That said, I am also interested in studying computational agent-based
systems as complex systems without the need to tie them to systems in the
"real-world".
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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> *Stephen writes:*
>
>
>
> “Three most used non-biological examples I've seen are:
>
>    - ferromagnetism (described with ising model)
>
> [..]
>
> The Ising model is just a model, however.  Even though an Ising system can
> encode functions, I don’t think that arbitrary functions are found in
> nature.  As a ridiculous example, show me a division function that occurs
> as a metastable crystal in the wild.  There are some Ising model instances
> that would be irregular arrangements of atoms and maybe even impossible to
> form without an apparatus.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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