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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics

COMPLEXITY

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What Algorithms Lose

In algarithmic mathematics, processes respond in a magnificent way to context. So an aircraft may be travelling along 35 thousand feet and it's responding to outside buffeting. The if part of the equation says that if i'm in steady air, do this. If there is weather ahead and 50 miles a trigger the rooting algarithm. If something else happens, if i'm held up at near an airport, go into a holding position. If the price of tea in china changes, then do such and such. You can't get that high with algarisms. They just play ot probably inside a computer, or maybe inside your head,. but you don't see that

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