Re: [FRIAM] Is it economics or biology

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Standish
Like anything in the mainstream press, tantalisingly short on detail. I argued back in 1996 that Economics needs to take on an evolutionary outlook in a paper that was ultimately published in 2000. Indeed, I used the same Mashallian quote mentioned in the article: Standish, R.K. (2000) ``The Role

[FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
That's strange, in my Mozilla Thunderbird (IMAP) e-Mail client I can see the response from Russel before the original mail from Nick about "Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47". Microsoft's Outlook displays it in the correct order: Dates in Outlook Russel's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:09 Nick's Mail

[FRIAM] We meet at 7 pm

2006-07-27 Thread Mike Oliker
Title: Message complexity group / chaos club   meeting time: 7 pm Thursday July 27 meeting place: Mike Oliker's (directions below) meeting topic: the article "Antichaos and Adaptation" by Stuart Kauffman. The article is  available online at www.covchap.com/articles/

Re: [FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Eldridge
I think it's simply that Russel has his computer date wrong (one day early), and while Outlook uses the local arrival time, Thunderbird uses the remote sender's time. Of course it's pretty absurd that in 2006 we still don't have computers on networks naturally synchronized time-wise by default. A

Re: [FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, you are right. If I sort after the remote sender's time, Outlook shows the wrong message order, too. -J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Eldridge Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:01 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity C

Re: [FRIAM] Causality violations

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Standish
I do autosyncronise my computers clock with NTP. Where it all goes pear shaped is that I send mail from Linux running on VMWare running on top of Windows. Everytime windows hibernates, VMWare's clock gets screwed up. I have a menu item that connects to NTP and syncronise's Linux's clock, but that

Re: [FRIAM] Is it economics or biology

2006-07-27 Thread Owen Densmore
I know economics uses game theory, but I'm not sure whether evolutionary game theory has caught on. This came up in a thread on wedtech, so I thought I'd pass it along: > I'm reading this: > Game Theory Evolving by Herbert Gintis > http://tinyurl.com/z22cj > I like it because it loo

[FRIAM] violation of causality, etc.

2006-07-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
here" AND "in the head" of the observer. > > No, I hadn't heard of them, but the basic reasoning you mention sounds > familiar. > > Cheers > > -- > *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which > is of type "applicati

Re: [FRIAM] violation of causality, etc.

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Tollander
t;> > Tolman, > >>> the inventor of cognitive behaviorism, and ultimately a traitor to the >>> cause in my opinion. >>> >>> The basic idea is that reality can be cut in various ways and different >>> observers SEE different cuts. All cuts are REAL p

[FRIAM] Miss Manners@ Friam

2006-07-27 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear Miss Manners, I need some help with posting to a favorite list of mine, friam. should I always delete all of the history of what I am applying to when I reply to a message on Friam.? Otherwise things start to get lost in an ever more complicated see of citations and references and <<

[FRIAM] how can you tell if something is new?

2006-07-27 Thread Phil Henshaw
...or whether anything begins or ends, in contrast to events just being a continuous dynamically variable stream of flows? It's sort of the same question as in evolution, whether there are species that resist selective pressures and occasionally change by some other process, or just complex for