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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: On functionalism and implementation
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Date: 31 Mar 92 13:54:31 GMT
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See my article, The Evolution of Peer Polities, in the Proceedings of the
Cambridge Conference on Dynamic Modelling and Human Systems, S. E. van der
Leeuw, ed., Edinburgh University Press, 1992. I demonstrate that there are
significant chaotic processes in the evolution of social systems. One
implication is that Asimov's "psychohistory" is not feasible.
   Harry

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Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com


