tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924407681614347382012-02-16T11:52:32.986-08:00sonicbraincoming to the same problem over and over again, but approaching it from different anglessonicbrainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01133059956415882659noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392440768161434738.post-91083432636652485992007-11-05T14:33:00.001-08:002007-11-05T14:44:16.098-08:00<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+tree+and+the+candle&rft.title=Unity+Through+Diversity%3A+A+Festschrift+for+Ludwig+von+Bertalanffy&rft.aulast=Koestler&rft.aufirst=Athur&rft.date=1973&rft.pages=pp.+287-314&rft.place=New+York&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Gordon+and+Breach"><cite id="CITEREFKoestler1973"><br /></cite></span>number of components exceeds what could reasonably be fully interconnected<br />> hierarchicality<br /> > > modules (object oriented programming)<br /><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+tree+and+the+candle&rft.title=Unity+Through+Diversity%3A+A+Festschrift+for+Ludwig+von+Bertalanffy&rft.aulast=Koestler&rft.aufirst=Athur&rft.date=1973&rft.pages=pp.+287-314&rft.place=New+York&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Gordon+and+Breach"><cite id="CITEREFKoestler1973"><br /></cite></span>arguments regarding the prevalence and necessity of hierarchy/modularity in nature<span style="font-style: italic;">:</span><cite class="inline"></cite><br /><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+tree+and+the+candle&rft.title=Unity+Through+Diversity%3A+A+Festschrift+for+Ludwig+von+Bertalanffy&rft.aulast=Koestler&rft.aufirst=Athur&rft.date=1973&rft.pages=pp.+287-314&rft.place=New+York&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Gordon+and+Breach"><cite id="CITEREFKoestler1973">Koestler, Athur (1973), "The tree and the candle", in Gray, William & Rizzo, Nicholas D., <i>Unity Through Diversity: A Festschrift for Ludwig von Bertalanffy</i>, New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 287-314<br /><br /><br /></cite></span>It has been proposed that perception itself is a process of hierarchical decomposition <cite class="inline">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_decomposition#CITEREFLeyton1992" title="">Leyton 1992</a>)</cite>, and that phenomena which are not essentially hierarchical in nature may not even be "theoretically intelligible" to the human mind (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_decomposition#CITEREFMcGinn1994" title="">McGinn 1994</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_decomposition#CITEREFSimon1996" title="">Simon 1996</a>).<br /><p>Practical applications of functional decomposition are found in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_networks" title="Bayesian networks">Bayesian networks</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_equation_modeling" title="Structural equation modeling">structural equation modeling</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_systems" title="Linear systems">linear systems</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_systems" title="Database systems">database systems</a>.</p> <p><a name="Knowledge_representation" id="Knowledge_representation"></a></p><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_decomposition<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/392440768161434738-9108343263665248599?l=sonicbrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sonicbrainnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392440768161434738.post-18265744613539118502007-09-06T21:00:00.000-07:002007-09-06T12:42:36.382-07:00Dierk Schmidt / documenta 12<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73868939@N00/1210862163/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1210862163_6ab53090c8_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73868939@N00/1210862163/">Dierk Schmidt / documenta 12</a> <br /> Ursprünglich hochgeladen von <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/73868939@N00/">docublog12</a> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/392440768161434738-1826574461353911850?l=sonicbrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sonicbrainnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392440768161434738.post-56209321112735022662007-09-06T12:57:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:01:31.075-07:00<a href="http://www.nodebox.net"><br />nodebox</a><br /><a href="http://www.processing.org/"><br />processing</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/392440768161434738-5620932111273502266?l=sonicbrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sonicbrainnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392440768161434738.post-23152876645163922992007-09-06T12:32:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:53:35.584-07:00dieses buch<br />frederic vester: die <a href="http://www.frederic-vester.de/deu/werke/die-kunst-vernetzt-zu-denken/">kunst vernetzt zu denken</a><br /><br />klärt<br />komplexität<br /><br />wir suchen hier nach strukturellen ähnlichkeiten von kunst, gesellschaft, politik und geschichte<br />mit unserem gehirn<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/392440768161434738-2315287664516392299?l=sonicbrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sonicbrainnoreply@blogger.com0