By all means have a discussion. Rosen is not an easy read, nor easy to talk about even. I have some grumbles with Rosen, which I mention in my paper "On Complexity and Emergence", but these are fairly muted. There've been some interesting articles recently in Artificial Life by Chu & Ho that appear to disprove Rosen's central theorem. I suspect their rather more rigourous approach crystalises some of my grumbles, but I haven't found the time yet to try out the analysis more formally myself.
Cheers On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:41:43PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > All, > > On the recommendation of somebody on this list, I started reading Rosen's > Life Itself. It does indeed, as the recommender suggested, seem to relate to > my peculiar way of looking at such things as adaptation, motivation, etc. > The book is both intriguing and somewhat over my head. Pied Piperish in > that regard. So I am wondering if there are folks on the list who wold like > to talk about it. By the way, does the fact that I am attracted to Rosen > make me a category theorist? I am told that that is somewhat to the left of > being an astrologer. > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
