Re: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

2008-03-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Lloyd wrote: > I distinguish between agents that are intrinsically part of a system, > and that exhibit intelligence - either natural human intelligence or > weak artificial intelligence. [...] Compare this to [...] what I call > automata - as dete

Re: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

2008-03-12 Thread Ken Lloyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Henshaw Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:09 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity Well, there's a sort of a minority 'out crowd' ki

Re: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

2008-03-12 Thread Phil Henshaw
--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:44 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity I have just started reading Friam email and hope to participate in an up

Re: [FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

2008-03-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -new understanding in the way say dreams and dreaming allows us to explore > and understand ourselves and each other in a way we wouldn't be able to do > otherwise > > or > > -does ABM allow us to see something more like th

[FRIAM] Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

2008-03-12 Thread admin
I have just started reading Friam email and hope to participate in an upcoming Barcamp. I want to understand better the promise of using ABM in understanding complexity. I heard, I think it was Nicholas Thompson, say that what he likes about ABM is that it allows him to see things he wouldn't be ab