John Holland identified properties and mechanisms common to all Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS):
— John Holland
Properties:
1. aggregation (of components)
2. nonlinearity (no linear extrapolation)
3. flows (transfer of resources/info)
4. diversity of agents (robustness)
Mechanisms:
1. tagging (agent recognition)
2. internal model (agents reason about world)
3. building blocks (many levels of components )
Here some more links devoted to rational thinking, which I found on the site mentioned in the previous post and which are simply excellent:
Chance Welcome Page
Fallacy Files
Argument Mapping Tutorials
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