“Holland’s main project in Emergence is to define a class of models in which simple rules generate both perpetual novelty and persistent patterns, the latter of which will count as emergent phenomena. He calls these models constrained generating procedures (cpgs). Cpgs perform the same two seemingly…”Tagged: Constrained Generating Procedures, Change Within Consistency, Variation Within Consistency, Difference In The Same
“The logic of combination is a powerful transformation engine for entities at a particular hierarchical level, but it does not account for the transformations that construct new levels.”Tagged: Combinatorics, Hierarchy, Possible Limits of Emergence Within Hierarchies
“Standard examples of level hierarchies, some of which are also inclusion hierarchies, are: physico-chemical ( e.g. elementary particles –atoms – molecules); biological (e.g. cells – organs – individuals – species); economic (individuals – working groups or departments – firms – national economies);…”Tagged: Level Hierarchies, Hierarchies, Examples of Hierarchies
“An entity is a container, and what it contains are other entities; this is the structure of reality.”Tagged: Nested Systems, Chinese Boxes, Inclusion hierarchy
“I distinguish four different kinds of hierarchy: order hierarchy, inclusion hierarchy, control hierarchy and level hierarchy.”Tagged: Hierarchies, Different Types of Hierarchies, Hierarchy Thinking, Defining Hierarchies, Systems Thinking