> > *Marcos writes* > The Ising model is just a model, however.
My example was the *physical phenomena* of ferromagnetism not the Ising model that describes it. Eg heat up a physical magnet past its critical point (Curie temperature) and the metal loses its alignment/magnetic polarity as a collective property. from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature: [image: Inline image 1] That said, I am also interested in studying computational agent-based systems as complex systems without the need to tie them to systems in the "real-world". _______________________________________________________________________ [email protected] <[email protected]> CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > *Stephen writes:* > > > > “Three most used non-biological examples I've seen are: > > - ferromagnetism (described with ising model) > > [..] > > The Ising model is just a model, however. Even though an Ising system can > encode functions, I don’t think that arbitrary functions are found in > nature. As a ridiculous example, show me a division function that occurs > as a metastable crystal in the wild. There are some Ising model instances > that would be irregular arrangements of atoms and maybe even impossible to > form without an apparatus. > > Marcus > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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