The existence of, and ability to register, the observations is the important part. Along with people's ability to *not see* (which is different from "ignore") information that contradicts their held positions, potential observations may be plentiful but unavailable to the potential observer. I suppose with Ismists (people who buy into -isms), there's always a risk of being so locked into what you already think that you're incapable of any observation, much less those that juxtapose different things.
But re: avoiding modeling the space between the -isms, I'd argue that sometimes (only sometimes), it's best to leave the interstitial space unmodeled to avoid biasing the integration. It would be too "meta" to lock oneself into a particular integration so that *other* ways of integrating were obfuscated. So, any model of the economy/environment that connects them must have near-equivalent siblings that can also model that economy/environment. In any case, I'm happy so many people are trash-talking capitalism. But the author of the article seems to be committing such a large rhetorical error that I can't trust what he's saying at all. He could have left out the nonsense about Glenn Beck and used that space to distinguish between capitalism as a world-view versus capitalism as a way to solve a few particular problems and I wouldn't have blinked at all. On 11/5/19 10:17 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Whether this is laziness depends on whether their GUI works hard to unify > pluralistic observations, or simply truncates observations or doesn't make > observations. It is also lazy to model a set of microcosms and not model > the economy or environment that connect them. That could be the hard part. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
