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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Why reductionism and classical synthesis doesn't work
Summary: chaos != non-linear systems
Keywords: chaos
Message-ID: <23499@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 13 Feb 89 06:02:50 GMT
References: <6390@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <6390@ecsvax.UUCP>, paleo@ecsvax.UUCP (Constantine A. LaPasha) writes:
> (maybe a bit late, but my 2 cents worth...)
> BTW- the study of the behavior of nonlinear systems has come to
> be referred to as chaos


Well, not really.  The Center for Non-Linear Studies here at
Los Alamos National Laboratory sort of falls into two camps,
jokingly referred to as the "chaos-ers" and the "soliton-ers".
So there is more to non-linear studies than meets the eye.

By the way, The Santa Fe Institute (1120 Canyon Road, Santa Fe,
NM 87501) sponsors meetings and workshops on a wide range of
non-linear studies and publish a newsletter four times a year.
The last issue covers economics, the aids-immune system interactions,
the Matrix of Biological Knowledge effort, "Complexity, Entropy,
and the Physics of Information: A Manifesto", and news about
a Complex Systems summer school.

If you are interested in this area, I suggest contacting the
Santa Fe Institute.  (You might mail to the attention of Ms.
Ginger Richardson).

dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory
los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd

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