Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 4. Simulating Echo, p. 146
Context: 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.
John H. Holland: Building
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“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 62
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 37
“Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.”
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 79