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ace--first off, your link went to a blog. if you want to make a serious argument, find more reliable information--at least to supplement what you find on the blog and to counter the inevitable objection based on anonymity of authorship, lack of sources within the data etc etc etc. that's why i said what i said. i know the links work.
on a more interesting note...there's alot more that could be said about filtherton's post above on complexity and/or complex systems. complexity in that sense really does wreak havoc with simplistic data and simplistic data-interpretation---but there are problems with measurements and interpretation that go beyond simply not having caught up with the idea and which instead cut to the heart of how scientific knowledge operates. complex dynamic systems don't obviate more traditional modes of knowing--but they do displace them and undercut claims based on them by entailing an ontological register-shift--which in this case simply refers to the rules that structure the games of observation, interpretation and the linkages between interpretations and the world (because the logic which shapes interpretation need not be of a piece with that which shapes observation, and one's conception of the world need not be of a piece with the interal procedures which shape interpretations, etc.)
or something.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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