27 | October | 2007 | Interaction Culture

Interaction Culture: the Study of Non-Linear Systems

chmbrigg October 27, 2007 1

So i’m reading a paper today by Chris Langton on the subject of Artificial Life (available online at http://www.aec.at/en/archiv_files/19931/E1993_025.pdf), in which he points out the fundamental differences between approaches to studying linear and non-linear systems. I would say that in researching Interaction Culture, we must more fully understand ourselves to be dealing with non-linear systems,…

Structuralism & Cognition

Aaron H October 27, 2007 0

So I have expressed it here before, and Thursday’s discussion reminded me of it again. Language seems to structure our cognition. Can we ever have a thought that is not language based? If we did have such a thought could it have any meaning? What I’m saying here is that the unit of analysis of…