Hmmmm... what does that mean? The model of evolution I observe working in both natural systems and in designed systems is "exploration at the fringe" What that means depends on the system involved, but the invariant is a high degree of organizational invariance in the core and a low degree on the leading edge. There's got to be a few other parts there too, I suppose, but first things first.
When I do a search with Google I see very little 'intelligence' of that kind in the results. There appears to be some statistical weighting, but the 'intelligence' of the results seems to depend entirely on whether my word combination captures the concept I'm looking for. I don't believe that's definable by any means I know of yet. Would you agree, or are you using a tool that somehow comes back with what I would have 'meant' to say if I had only known how other people refer to the subject...? Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:45 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source. > > > Phil Henshaw wrote: > > My guess is that the reason you > > can come up with exceptions for any abstract category assignment is > > that you're interested in how nature is both highly orderly and > > indefinable. > > > Design, prescriptive language, and abstract categories are for those > that aren't doing new things. Evolution, or search, is for > dealing with > new things. I see no problem with having dozens of evolved > languages to > describe different sorts of things, but perhaps > retrospectively some of > them are really the same and worth abstracting and compressing. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org