On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My scepticism comes mostly from my personal observation that each complex > systems scientist I come across tends to know about one breed of complex > system, and have a great deal to say about that breed, but when I come to > think about my preferred breed (AGI, cognitive systems) I cannot seem to > relate their generalizations to my case.
That's not very surprising if you think about it. Suppose we postulate the existence of a grand theory of complexity. That's a theory of everything that is not simple (in the sense being discussed here) - but a theory that says something about _every nontrivial thing in the entire Tegmark multiverse_ is rather obviously not going to say very much about any particular thing. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
