Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:08:26AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > Thanks. Causality has enormous importance, especially > if you can differentiate it from correspondence. > > I sometimes think that the rise of the stock market is > causally related to the price of gold.

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish Thanks. Causality has enormous importance, especially if you can differentiate it from correspondence. I sometimes think that the rise of the stock market is causally related to the price of gold. Or the value of the dollar. Historical inflation of the value of the dollar

Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
en - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:15:17 Subject: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems On 11/7/2012 11:55 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > > The machine or program that made

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/7/2012 11:55 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King The machine or program that made the calculation doesn't have to be real, it's purely an a priori, a given. Hi Roger, Given how? How can a computation occur without access to something real? Can we get knowledge for free?

Re: Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Russell Standish
assumption, and looking > out on the universe, I see no disharmony-- it > all works just fine. > > > Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net > 11/7/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > - Receiving the follow

Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Clough
content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 10:35:45 Subject: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems On 11/7/2012 9:24 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I don't know (nor do I suspect that Leibniz knew) how one could calculate such a univers

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/7/2012 9:24 AM, Roger Clough wrote: I don't know (nor do I suspect that Leibniz knew) how one could calculate such a universe in perfect harmony in advance, but there's no need for that. It is simply an assumption, and looking out on the universe, I see no disharmony-- it all works just fi

Re: Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Clough
tent - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-06, 15:34:30 Subject: Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:54:00AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > According to Leibniz's idealistic metaphy

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Nov 2012, at 21:34, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:54:00AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish According to Leibniz's idealistic metaphysics, nothing is causal, things just appear to happen by cause. Their motions instead occur according to a pre-establis

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:46:32PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > < 'life' is only partial and an artificial way to produce it may NOT lead to > the real thing (no matter how close we may get to our in-model > descriptions).>> This doesn't follow at all. ALife is more about "growing" software than wri

Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:54:00AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > According to Leibniz's idealistic metaphysics, nothing is causal, > things just appear to happen by cause. Their motions instead > occur according to a pre-established (a priori) harmony. > > This is not

Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Clough
ially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-06, 01:01:59 Subject: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:45:55PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > Dear

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:45:55PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > Dear Russell, > > I have my doubts about "causality" as a *complete* term: our 'systems', cf: > ecosystem etc. include the up-to-date inventory of knowables as in our > existing "MODEL" of the world - which grows over the millennia > st

Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-05 Thread John Mikes
Dear Russell, I have my doubts about "causality" as a *complete* term: our 'systems', cf: ecosystem etc. include the up-to-date inventory of knowables as in our existing "MODEL" of the world - which grows over the millennia stepwise. (The 'cause' of the lightning is no more the "ire" of Zeus). Wh