{"id":1275,"date":"2010-08-06T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-08-06T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:00:01","slug":"the-catch-why-you-read-natures-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/the-catch-why-you-read-natures-models\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Catch\u201d, why you read nature\u2019s models"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend George posted a good article on modeling the\u00a0approaching decline of energy returns on energy invested in the earth (EROI)<\/a>, and I mentioned \u201cthe Catch\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nOne of the difficulties with complex theoretical models is that they all need to assume the parts are following rules.<\/p>\n

How economies work, of course, is with \u201danimate learning-bots\u201d (that’s “us”), all exploring the world and discovering new relationships all the time. That\u2019s why I tend to take the limiting conditions nature displays as a guide, based on her own synthesis of the whole process (like the switch from multiplying to diminishing returns on the success of the search for stuff).<\/p>\n

When you learn to identify them they display what the system as a whole actually IS finding and learning from its environment, using the system itself as a better guide to what ALL the parts are learning at once.<\/p>\n

Have you considered what evidence in the environment you\u2019d look for to see if the system as a whole was approaching a danger point of vanishing net energy? One clear sign seems to be where the market mechanisms \u201chit a snag\u201d and start displaying emergent systemic behavior where there should be smooth market adjustments.<\/p>\n

A field called \u201ceconophysics\u201d as mentioned in an article in the NY Times. I posted\u00a0a comment, now reposted here<\/a>, mentioning a couple of the other examples I know.<\/p>\n

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My friend George posted a good article on modeling the\u00a0approaching decline of energy returns on energy invested in the earth (EROI), and I mentioned \u201cthe Catch\u201d. \u2014- One of the difficulties with complex theoretical models is that they all need to assume the parts are following rules. How economies work, of course, is with \u201danimate … Continue reading \u201cThe Catch\u201d, why you read nature\u2019s models<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}