Subject(s): CX.14, CX.19

Category: Article

Abstract:

An intriguing heuristic model of development, decline, and change conceived by Bernard Lonergan in the late 1940?s was laid out in a manner now recognizable as an early model of complexity. This report is a first effort towards translating that qualitative vision, designated Emergent Probability(EP), into a viable network computer study. Lonergan constructed his model as a convoluted building process of recurrent schemes that act as foundational elements to further growth(ie, resource cycles, motor skills, biological routines, autocatalytic processes). His corresponding World Process can be alternately thought of as chemical, environmental, organizational, economical, ethical, etc., and its generality might therefore be of particular interest to complex systems researchers.

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