Monday, July 26, 2010
Chipping away
The butterfly effect is said to happen as a result of many tiny initiating events that then go boom, splash et voila...a tipping point. Wouldn't you be so much better off if you could actually keep track of all those tiny initiating events as you move through space and time...if only a company could develop automated data collection devices and feedback mechanisms that give you real-time feedback on these tiny initiating events.
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the problem is....you don't know which events they will be in advance and you don't know how they will combine to produce tipping point (or at least this is the complexity assumption) - applying McKelvey's adaptive tension values, you could definateily narrow your range down by understanding Tension Values 1 and 2 .... you can't change the system, but you can increase/decrease the tension values accordingly to have a system fall in the "complex-zone"
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