Frankly, I'm disappointed.
The FRIAM list has been through several very philosophical
conversations over 3-4 weeks, all purporting to be "complex". Yet
when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
Does this mean, for complexity, there's no There There?
Surely there is some interesting formalism we can use for
complexity. Robert Holmes suggested a great book to us a while back
which I had forgotten in my initial email:
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
Do we all talk about complexity yet have no basis for it?
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
I've been looking at/for complexity books that are textbooks or
similarly technical/mathematical. The recent Newman, Barabasi &
Watts collection The Structure and Dynamics of Networks is pretty
good but I would like something broader, covering the "Complex
Systems" world.
Bar Yam's original book:
or
ref=sr_1_1/104-7070581-5619133?ie=UTF8
is the best I know of. Anyone know of another?
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
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