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Complexity Science in Sociotechnical Systems

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

The use of Complexity Science to serve the study of sociotechnical systems began in the 90s, mainly through the work of Pavard (2003) and the COSI Training Network. This line of work was pursued by colleague and friend Nikos Zarboutis, who presented this paper co-authored with Peter Wright in 2006. Because of my military tour […]

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Is God a Programmer (Gregory Chaitin)

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

This is a collection of Chaitin’s more accessible articles. Most of these are an attempt to define his quasi-empirical epistemology, which is tries to be a dialectical transcendence of idealism and empiricism.

To present it he uses some very interesting quotes:

According to Plato, the world is rationally understandable because it has structure. And the universe has […]

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