Comments on: Emergent Causality

By: Crowdsourcing Election Verification, part 2 « Complex Adaptive Systems

Crowdsourcing Election Verification, part 2 « Complex Adaptive Systems — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:17:43 +0000

[...] * As far as I know, my blog post had nothing to do with this. Coincidentally the site was created by the academic department which conferred my undergrad degree (Symbolic Systems). If anything, the causal arrow goes from them to me, but as you know by now I favor emergent causality. [...]

By: Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems

Complex Systems Concept Summary « Complex Adaptive Systems — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:56:41 +0000

[...] reductionist-only mindset often blinds us to important concepts like emergent causality and cultural agency. By adding in complex systems thinking, which centers on emergence, many once [...]

By: The Conflict Between Complex Systems and Reductionism « Complex Adaptive Systems

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:42:42 +0000

[...] a clock in which each broken part is fixed in order, investigators have attempted to discover causal relationships among key components of an individual and to treat those components accordingly. For example, if [...]

By: Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems

Notes from TED « Complex Adaptive Systems — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:41:46 +0000

[...] • Memetic evolution is a concept that has been around for over 30 years and a subject that has been talked about several times at TED as a real and powerful force, as real as biological evolution. Yet, I get the sense that people don’t want to accept memetics as real and therefore ignore the implications. It is unsettling to think that we as individuals are not fully in charge. It’s why people don’t quite see organizational agency for what it is and fumble around in the dark when it comes to causality. [...]

By: What is a Gene? « Complex Adaptive Systems

What is a Gene? « Complex Adaptive Systems — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:11:01 +0000

[...] on the blog because (a) plausibility doesn’t imply veracity, and (b) there could easily be more than one relevant cause/dynamic. I’ve summarized what I feel are the main arguments and referenced the corresponding comments [...]

By: Coherence « Complex Adaptive Systems

Coherence « Complex Adaptive Systems — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:03:02 +0000

[...] I posted earlier on emergent causality. One aspect that needs to be elaborated on is the concurrent, self-interdependent nature of [...]