Subject: Re: MAXIS
From: Alexandra Hettergott (a.hettergott@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 08:11:52 EDT
Scott Hawkins wrote :
>>Randomness is the property of a process, not of the result.
>Yes, concerning perception, for me 'order' is the product as result of
>'deconstruction', whereas 'randomness' and/or 'chaos' are dynamic
>properties of 'construction'.
-- well, (random) 'choice' refers to a(n active) process ...
I wouldn't yet consider an(y) 'organization' (process) that btw can
happen in both chaotic and non-chaotic way being necessarily
'deconstructive' ...
John Croft thought ...
>... that in a Markov chain, the outcome of an event depended
>on the previous outcome (not the case with a series of coin flips)...?
-- (simple-minded enough) one might state that the outcome in coin
tosses is yet depending (conditioned) on the fact of there being only
two (given) alternatives (hardly three) ; or, with (alternating)
different coins one could have a (conditional) 'chain' formed of
different (one-choice) bifurcations ...
:ah
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