Questions on Kelly ch 22-23

1) 420-21 What is Doyne Farmer illustrating with the contrast between the ball and the balloon?

2) 423 What is the difference between the unpredictability due to nonlinearity and the unpredictability due to high dimensional systems?

3) 424-425 What was the “chaos cabal” and what did they learn from Las Vegas?

4) 427-429 If the stock market is a high dimensional systems, why bother trying to predict it?

5) 439-440 In what ways has biological life always been about prediction? 440-441 How does that extend to non-organic systems?

6) 446-9 Why is it that the patterns in models like Limits to Growth and SimLife end up in stasis or collapse? What is missing?

7) 458-460 Pick the three questions from this list that seem most interesting to you and explain why.

8) 464-7 How can the impact of IT on society be described in terms of vivisystems or swarms?