Dear FISers,
Thanks to Christophe for his agents "narrative" and to Joseph for openly
"buying" populational thinking and the doctrine of limitation. As for
the narrative, I concur that the link between intelligence and info
implies the introduction of some "agent" thinking --what kind of agent
As my second posting for the week:
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From: Stanley N Salthe
Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Fis] Doctrine of Limitation
To: "Pedro C. Marijuan"
Replying to Pedro, who asked:
>Optimality principles can be discussed now, but limitation may
Dear Stan,
It seems to me that senescence applies to system components which are
continuously replaced (generationally) by the autopoietic or dissipative
system, while the system at this next-order level can be expected continue
to develop (or stagnate).
For example, the clouds come and
