PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Division Of Labour, Qwerty, Hunter-Gatherer
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You find a lot of nonlinearity/threshold points--> really important. Non-linear agents: some people have more impact on society than others. Keystone species: have big impact on whole ecosystem eg. mushrooms or fig wasps. War that was lost and the horseshoe thing. Very small thing causes very large impact-- make predictions with certainty harder. Compare (contrast) this to what we think a reality is when we run statistics of things. Things we run statistics on are independents. Multiple scale is brutal to deal with statistically-- dealing with just 2 level statistics was very difficult. Us military decided to create ultimate war decision making machine (gigantic decision making system) Ran military simulation (against us military?) with imaginary rogue dictator. And paul van riper played the role of that imaginary dictator. He is deeply in complex systems theory (=he thinks in terms of nonlinearity) U. s. military came up with perfect strategy to shut him down.