Re: [FRIAM] swarming models

2007-11-13 Thread Phil Henshaw
Or does it 'hive' ? [the essential difference is that doing your own thing is the norm in a hive and all following the same rules is required is a swarm...] Phil Henshaw .·´ ¯ `·. ~~~ 680 Ft. Washington

Re: [FRIAM] Retrocausality

2007-11-13 Thread Orlando Leibovitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many, many years ago I attend a series of lectures in the Guildhall of > London on the workings of the brain. One of the conclusions of some > researchers was that one of the only ways to explain the brain's > incredible capacity for memory was to posit that the brai

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM and causality

2007-11-13 Thread Eric Smith
Thank you Roger and Frank and Tom, I hadn't looked up any of this material on Pearl, and really need to learn it. Indeed, I think it was at Nihat's talk that I saw it the first time, as you suggested, Frank. Nick, two things, which because I can't do them justice may be too much like ston

[FRIAM] swarming models

2007-11-13 Thread PPARYSKI
The November 13th NYT has an excellent article on swarm modeling. _http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin) Does FRIAM swarm? Paul ** See

Re: [FRIAM] Retrocausality

2007-11-13 Thread John Goekler
LANL program tonight at Little Cracking the Neural Code: Discovering the Language of the Brain, by Garrett Kenyon http://www.lanl.gov/science/fellows/lectures.shtml FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

Re: [FRIAM] Retrocausality

2007-11-13 Thread PPARYSKI
Many, many years ago I attend a series of lectures in the Guildhall of London on the workings of the brain. One of the conclusions of some researchers was that one of the only ways to explain the brain's incredible capacity for memory was to posit that the brain had inherent memories of fut

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM and causality

2007-11-13 Thread sy
Nick, I'm glad you clarified, and it's a valid poit. My reply wasn't too far off. The problem is that to study what IS happeniing rather than what SHOULD BE (locating cause where it occurs rather than in unobservable imaginery events) requires a new method. Phil Sent from my Verizon Wireless Bl