This re-raises Marcus' contribution to preserving the analogy between phase changes and socio-political upheaval:
On 3/23/20 9:48 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fict.2016.00014/full I haven't had time to answer a question I have through my own homework. So I'll just risk embarrassment and ask it here. Can the sub-models coupled like in the paper be in different phases? Or is the coupling "tight" such that a transition in one sub-system forces a transition everywhere? Carrying on abusing the bad analogy ... if the coupling is loose enough to allow mixed phases, then I'd argue the Medea hypothesis is flawed and composite systems do not work that way. It's not suicide at all, but more like a dynamic immune system, where one part attacks another part, perhaps because of ignorance that the other part is coupled to itself in some way. "Give me back my haaaaaand!" https://youtu.be/-5XAmupw8jo On 4/2/20 10:29 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > I (re)submit the alternative to Gaia which is the Medea hypothesis: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis > > perhaps no more (or less) absurd as an allegorical referent -- ☣ 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
