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From: David Levine <david@interworld.com>
Subject: Re: Artificial society
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Scott Shirley wrote:
> society is like an organism?  You would define rules that determine how
> the individual members behave toward one another and how they behave
> collectively toward outside influences.  It might be interesting to 


Of course, theoretically the behavior of society as a whole
is an emergent phenomenon that would NOT be explicitly
defined.  You would only define rules governing individual
behavior, and see how society behaves as a whole.  Swarming
is a good example that has already been simulated.  Of course,
when you're talking about modelling a FULL society, I don't
quite think we have that kind of computing power, yet.  At
least, not to be able to do it (correctly) as an emergent
phenomenon.

David Levine
david@interworld.com
