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Philosophy generally has its own language for talking about these kinds of problems, and generally its own starting points. Gilles Deleuze laid a lot of the gro

Philosophy generally has its own language for talking about these kinds of problems, and generally its own starting points. Gilles Deleuze laid a lot of the groundwork for using ideas from chaos theory to work on philosophical problems during his life (starting with some of his work in the 1960-70s). Some links: - http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/PDF/Remarks_on_Complexity_Theory.pdf http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/PDF/Remarks_on_Complexity_The... - http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jipt.2010.0004 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jipt.2010.0004 It could perhaps be useful to do similar work with computational complexity theory.

throwaway183839 12y ago
What is being discussed in those links is commonly called complex systems theory[0] which is a mathematical/scientific/philosophical field concerned with how complexity (in the natural language sense of the world) arises from what appear to be simple natural laws. For example, how chaotic dynamics arise from deterministic systems, how biology arises from chemistry, or how consciousness arises from neural activity. It is connected to chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics and systems theory. It is completely different to computational complexity[1] which is what is being discussed in Aaronson's article. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
- zenogais 12y ago
  My mistake, I meant it as a basis for incorporating computational complexity. The original article posted shows how computational complexity is applicable to non-linear systems, which I think are philosophically more interesting. Deleuze's work would provide some good groundwork for seeing how those kinds of ideas can be applied in a philosophical context.

throwaway183839 12y ago

What is being discussed in those links is commonly called complex systems theory[0] which is a mathematical/scientific/philosophical field concerned with how complexity (in the natural language sense of the world) arises from what appear to be simple natural laws. For example, how chaotic dynamics arise from deterministic systems, how biology arises from chemistry, or how consciousness arises from neural activity. It is connected to chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics and systems theory. It is completely different to computational complexity[1] which is what is being discussed in Aaronson's article. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory

zenogais 12y ago
My mistake, I meant it as a basis for incorporating computational complexity. The original article posted shows how computational complexity is applicable to non-linear systems, which I think are philosophically more interesting. Deleuze's work would provide some good groundwork for seeing how those kinds of ideas can be applied in a philosophical context.