Nevertheless, generalities among different instances of complex systems have been identified, see for instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feigenbaum_constants Terren --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[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/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
