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作者：小小衲 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Complexity, the book, was published in 1992 and it looks at the people, events and ideas surrounding the creation of the Santa Fe Institute, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The inspiration that lead to the creation of this scientific think tank is credited to George Cowan who at the time was director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The following quote by Cowan from Waldrop's book gives us some insight into his thinking:
"The royal road to the Nobel Prize has generally been through the reductionist approach," he says - dissecting the world into the smallest and simplest pieces you can. "You look for the solution of some more or less idealized set of problems, somewhat divorced from the real world, and constrained sufficiently so that you can find a solution, and that leads to more and more fragmentation of science. Whereas the real world demands - though I hate the word - a more holistic approach."
Waldrop的这本书，我曾经在这里贴过其序言。
作者：小小衲 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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我为什么说“还原论不是万能的，没有还原论是万万不能的”(1)
