[FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

[Stephen Guerin]

All Hurricanes are Dynamical System or Hurricanes and Dynamical Systems are
Dynamical Systems ;-p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophismata


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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:49 PM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Ugh.  Sorry.  I often forget to use "other people's words" when I talk.
> Sophistry is not a bad thing in my own private lexicon.  We are surrounded
> by sophismata (is that the right word?).  The disambiguation of the
> meanings of "model" is one such sophisma.  It is not resolvable, at least
> in the short term.  But every conversation about such disambiguation is
> fruitful and worthwhile.  It's just not the particular sophistry we need
> for this conversation.
>
> On 05/29/2017 11:45 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > Also, I don’t one understands what philosophy can do for science if you
> call it sophistry.  If you were happily painting the floor of a room and I
> pointed out that you had neglected to leave yourself a way out of the room,
> you wouldn’t call that sophistry, no matter how well the painting was going
> at the moment or how beautiful the painted floor looked.  That’s the role
> of philosophy in science.
>
> --
> ☣ glen
>
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