Re: Combining antropology & complexity science, anyone?

[Jurgen van der Pol]

LS,

Thanks *all* for the good comments (& references!) these past days on 
my above question, both through the Swarm & Starlogo digests as well 
as emailed directly. Suffice to say there is lots to think about for 
me the coming months.

I'd say from your comments that I've touched upon an issue of 
relevance as well as difficulties. Invariably, there is the trade-off 
between true representation of reality (an unachievable goal) and the 
level of abstraction that is acceptable (what is acceptable 
anyways?). Even when considering to model 'humans', there will be no 
avoidance. Seems to me that my next step is to explore both 
antropology as well as psychology to figure out a somewhat coherent 
set of 'human behavioral aspects'. I'll burn the bridge of what to do 
with that next when I get there so it's off the deep end I go...

I'll keep you posted.

Cheers,
Jurgen.



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