Daniel Calhoun wrote:
I speak as someone who worked with both Swarm and Repast, several years
ago, to do ethnohistorical models of trade and band-survival patterns in
a plains-like environment. To make this increasingly interesting would
have required modelling something like speciation or ethnogenesis. John
Holland never really produced this. For that reason, the rhetoric of
GEPR's analogies is enticing. It actually hints at producing emergent
species that are not encompassed by (that is, in the ugly word, "built
in by") a naive pre-specification of the outcome. Like a novel species
among the fish in a modelled stream.
Perhaps a more careful analogy would keep things within bounds.
It might. What bounds are you talking about? My goal with this
discussion is to establish the requirements in and around ontogeny or
evolution (not necessarily biological) So, it would be a very good
thing to proscribe the domain, showing where the practical boundaries are.
Can you provide a more careful analogy?
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