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Title: Not there yet
Review: This is a fascinating readable book. Dr Holland shows us many interesting behavioural models with fascinating results. His Echo model and genetic model results are particularly interesting, and insightful.Still, it seems to me, models based on atomistic concepts and the law of large numbers ought to be subjected to performance measurements based on thermodynamics. Dr. Holland has not shown that these complex adaptive systems imitate nature better than a similar model based on, for example, oxidation-reduction.Following the ideas of Arthur S Iberall I believe a theory of complex adaptive systems needs to be evaluated in terms of Navier-Stokes equations.
