<div dir="auto">Dear Gordana,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for this. Yes these tools are powerful (for good and bad!). It's not a trivial question to ask why they are powerful.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems to me that in the fast changing environmental threat we are wrestling with coordinating meaning over time. Simulations also occur over time. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Often however, even in the light of a simulation, we seek causal variables with a linear "monothetic" cause-effect structure, and discard much information as "noise" or exogenous factors that disturb the monothetic model. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But the experience of observing an unfolding model, as observing an unfolding epidemic in real life, is "polythetic": there are family resemblances between things, but no clear-cut categories. Moreover, time is an integral factor in production of observed outcomes. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's interesting that Alfred Schutz made the observation that music's communication of meaning depended entirely on the polythetic mode operating over time. Is it the same with all time-based phenomena like agent-based models?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best wishes</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mark</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 11:17 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, <<a href="mailto:gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se">gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book",serif">Please have a look at this excellent simulation:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book",serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs&feature=youtu.be</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Book",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book",serif">which makes me think about how powerful thinking tools
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that computation and information/data really offer.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book",serif">Stay safe and take care,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book",serif">Gordana<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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