In a message dated 98-02-08 17:28:24 EST, you write:
<< has a
lot in common with a whole lot of neoclassicals and even some radicals, is
the impulse to view society as something that can or should be thought of
as something that can be represented using the same kinds of models used to
represent the physical world. As the Santa Fe statement puts it:
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Two responses:
1) The value, as I see it, in what chaos/complexity theorist do is that
the stand they subvert (even if unintentionally) that impulse because
their work the whole project of "controlling" or "predicting" much
more problematic.
2) If the models work, they work. If they don't, who cares.
