Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread Alfredo
Maybe no other Democracy is evolving more than Latin American Democracy. A few months ago I told you about Latin America turns to left and I said that It could be a case of emergence. Process seems to be consolidating, during the last month two left presidents were reelected and a new one wa

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Phil Henshaw wrote: >We're simply not making a world that's possible to operate in a huge variety >of ways. > > Here's one way to delay the apocalypse.. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/11/30/space.hawking.reut/index.html FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread Phil Henshaw
Marcus wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In my experience those societies that have some homogeneity also are > > the most tolerant and therefore diverse ideas do emerge. Sweden and > > even Poland. > > > Make the group like the individual and vice versa and then > self-preservation i

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread Phil Henshaw
well.. lost a great post because web mail times out... Marcus, Responding to your post of last night. You said "it is necessary to invest only in those ideas where a broadly-defined payoff can be estimated". But what makes nature so successful in creatively responding to change seems to me to

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my experience those societies that have some homogeneity also are > the most tolerant and therefore diverse ideas do emerge. Sweden and > even Poland. > Make the group like the individual and vice versa and then self-preservation is group-preservation, and vice ve

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread David Breecker
If Paul is correct, this is fascinating. Perhaps there is some minimum threshold of confidence in the integrity of our "self," beyond which we can afford to be tolerant of the "other"? db dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. www.BreeckerAssociates.com Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 Santa Fe:505

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

2006-12-08 Thread PPARYSKI
In my experience those societies that have some homogeneity also are the most tolerant and therefore diverse ideas do emerge. Sweden and even Poland. Paul Paryski FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at ca

[FRIAM] ** reminder** Today 1:00p: Iain Couzin - Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups

2006-12-08 Thread Stephen Guerin
Today Fri, December 8 note time 1:00p For those that couldn't make Iain's SFI talk yesterday, he has agreed to give us an encore at our office. I *highly* recommend attending. Iain D. Couzin Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK & Department of Ecology and Evo