Frasi di John Henry Holland

John Henry Holland è stato uno scienziato statunitense e professore di psicologia, elettrotecnica ed informatica presso l'Universita Michigan di Ann Arbor.

Pioniere nel campo dei sistemi complessi e della scienza non lineare, è inoltre noto come il padre degli algoritmi genetici e del teorema degli schemi. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Febbraio 1929 – 9. Agosto 2015
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“Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 4. Simulating Echo, p. 146
Contesto: Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

“High science depends on this art.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 4. Simulating Echo, p. 146
Contesto: Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 62

“Even though these complex systems differ in detail, the question of coherence under change is the central enigma for each.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 4

“There is more of a mystery to the origin of the pin factory that Adam Smith (1776) discusses in his Wealth of Nations than is generally realized.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 3. Echoing Emergence, p. 97

“If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 7

“This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 37

“nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 23

“Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 79

“Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 3. Echoing Emergence, p. 137

“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 3. Echoing Emergence, p. 97

“The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 86

“The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 31

“Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.”

Origine: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 80

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