“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
Here is the case I am attempting to build:
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Albert Einstein
Here is the case I am attempting to build:
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We need to understand *patterns* of events such as copycat epidemics and climate-related forest fires as *emergent phenomena*. Conventional independent-event models aren't working.
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Instead, we must jump up one “level of description” to describe the emergents, and then think about the two levels of emergents and events together in a single model. I am attempting to build such a model; a beginning is at
and more is in process.
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and more is in process.
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My belief: Only with this approach can we possibly devise a class of new social interventions that can be both effective and constitutional.
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(Note to @anelsona: Here is the logic behind my interest in your work. I believe that this new class of interventions can emerge only from an intellectual collaboration between two communities that typically are not communicating: social scientists and system thinkers.)
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