On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:15:54PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote: > I mentioned it before, but it's worth mentioning again. There's a new > way to reveal structures of real complex physical systems that is > amenable to analysis, that is, other than the one way we've been using > for the past few hundred years, i.e. assigning numbers to them. > Assigning numbers to things is what I always thought of as being the > 'reduction' part of reductionism. >
No, its the analytical part in expressions like analytical geometry. One can be analytical without being reductionist, but it helps to have a computer :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ 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