April 2010

Le Macroscope: Vers une vision globale

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Sans conteste le meilleur ouvrage sur la théorie des sytèmes, malgré son âge (1975).
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Domain Ontologies for Reasoning Machines in Factory Automation

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When machines begin to talk. A (too)quick reading for experts, a simple introduction for newcomers.
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La modélisation des systèmes complexe

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Bonne lecture, recommadnée pour aborder l'étude systémique des orgainsations complexes.
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La Science et l'Hypothèse

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Poincaré est un scientifique de haut niveau, dont la vision de la science complète assez bien celle de Popper, plus philosophe.
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Super Imperialism - New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance

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A little be painful reading, but worth the effort. The US switch from creditor ton debtor dominance paradigm is really amazing. Michael Hudson does not suggest a deliberate planning for this dominance. I would think that it is actually a "systemic emerging behavior" raising from the natural greed added to self-sustaining unlimited propaganda and weaponry means
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Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

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Difficult not to agree on Popper's evolutionary approach to Knowledge. Certainly one of my most influential thinker.
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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The author certainly has personal revanche to exorcise. Nevertheless, a masterpiece for realizing our non-understanding level of the World complexity.
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