My name is Ebenezer and I am a health care worker. I read about "complex
adapting systems" some years ago and became interested in agent-based modeling.
How do different actors within a system decide when to cooperate and not to?
How do we evaluate cost-based modeling as we try to navigate our viewed choice
sets? Which assumptions do we use consciously, and which ones are not explicit,
but still in force?
I have been reading books for the last 5 years or so, on ideas loosely termed
"complexity", "chaos", "general systems theory", "game theory", "holism",
"semiotics", and so forth, and am always on the lookout for people to bounce
ideas around with.
My two main focii are:
1. How do ideas percolate through society, and how do they change as they pass
from one user to another? How do ideas shape us as we become their vectors, and
how much do we 'distort' the message we received by adapting it to our own
selfish concerns?
2. As alluded above, how do individual agents (actors, people, characters,
citizens) decide how to navigate complex and shifting environments that provide
both opportunity and hazard? And how do our plans of action distort the very
environment we move through? I term this "agent heuristics in multivariate
settings".
My website is called "adaptingsystems.com", and consists of mainly book reviews
plus some of my own ideas.
http://adaptingsystems.com/default.aspx
Thanks,
Eb
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