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- acetv, on 11/23/2008, -0/+12Trust me, you guys don't want to see the proof, it's two hundred and thirty pages long.
- EijiEEE, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5Math can get you laid, fact.
- Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5That's a myth.
Sincerely,
Mujokan - MindTrigger, on 11/23/2008, -2/+6It's so "cool" to be stupid in our country.
- Miketwo345, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4A lot of these ideas were inspired by Brooks, arguably the founder of Behavior-Based Robotics. He had looked at the Artificial Intelligence movement, which was producing better and better search algorithms, but still could not get a robot to do simple obstacle avoidance, and decided to go a different direction. He coined the mantra, "The world is its own best model."
The fundamental reason it works is that the world contains more complexity than you could ever hope to code into a microprocessor (or even for that matter a brain). With a few simple rules, you can take advantage of that complexity.
One of the coolest examples of emergent behavior I've ever seen is the Roomba's that organize their boxes into clusters, with no special programming whatsoever. The bump sensors go off when they hit multiple boxes, but not just one, so over time the boxes get clustered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kZmatqAaQ
Anyway, this article is interesting, but it's not discussing anything that hasn't been the subject of many research projects for several decades. The stability of equilibrium points in nonlinear systems is an incredibly interesting and difficult topic. - acetv, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Your website hurts my BRAIN.
- MacBookForMe, on 11/22/2008, -2/+6What a beautiful article!
- Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Systems theory has been taking off in the last 20 years. It is probably the most important intellectual contribution the post-boomer generations are going to leave behind. The only other one that comes to mind is quantum gravity, but that has elements of systems theory because information theory is so important to it.
If you are planning your degree, and you have a wide interest in science, and scientific approaches to topics like economics and politics; you aren't scared of maths; and you have a philosophical bent, then you should maybe look into systems theory as an academic path. - hinchb, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2I'd like to reply and tell you that the report you're quoting about the enormous brainpower we have unused isn't necessarily true but since it looks like it's true in your case I'll let it slide.
- fitech, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Interesting article. I went and found the referenced article from PW Anderson here... http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jay/880/moreisd ...
- acetv, on 11/23/2008, -2/+4"'Complex systems science is just the evolution of science,' Dodds says."
That's not very modest. Isn't this just another branch of science? To call it something other than science isn't productive in the least. - Sutley, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2What a player, you can tell because he drinks lattes.
- frontaxle, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1busy little fellas. ants.
- Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2Evolution existed as a word before Darwin. In the original sense, it means progression.
Systems theory started out around the start of last century. It's by nature cross-disciplinary. It's not so much the evolution of science as an approach that shows how much all branches of science have in common with each other, and with maths. - brian1625, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1It's common place now to confuse evolution with natural selection. Evolution simply means the process of development.
Evolution happens many ways.
Evolution by Natural Selection is a main system.
Evolution by Sexual Selection, Mutation, Genetic Drift and soon by Gene manipulation - 2thura, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Such intensely dynamic and functional systems are still in the hands of Darwin... We can dream. I just woke up, maybe one day it can help my toaster in intuiting the fact that i also need coffee. Great read.
- BlackApple, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Emergence....unless it's alive in the first place, it cant become alive. Unless...we invent "bio-computers" OK scientists Go!
- hinchb, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1The world always needs ditch diggers, now get to it.
- kayuri, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0As mathematician I agree with author. Math helps orginize thought and words, brings new language for world processes descriptions and other. I love math!
- Sutley, on 11/23/2008, -2/+1Dodds also misuses the theory of evolution, confusing it with progression. What an insightful fellow. -_-
- RaulMuadDib, on 11/23/2008, -5/+1Ask Sylar
- disrupter, on 11/23/2008, -8/+3The author must get laid alot
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