Encefalus

The last summer I was reading this book: The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

The book was dealing mainly with the complexity of economic systems. It actually tried to introduce a new field of economic analysis Complexity Economics, that is inspired by the recent trend of complexity science and [...]

Lately I have started dabbling with fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. You’ll probably start wondering what these are. I won’t try to give you a definition, but rather I’ll give you a few examples to help you understand yourself.
I don’t like the mathematical way that concepts like fuzzy logic are first presented. A mathematician [...]

Hello there guys (and girls)!
It’s been a month and two days since I wrote my last post. I am really short on time, but as you can see I always write when I have the time and an interesting subject on my hands

My hands
What I want to talk about today is the future [...]

Hello there guys! It’s been about 3 months that I haven’t posted anything! You’ve probably thought I am dead Let me tell you guys (and gals). Encefalus ain’t dead! It’s just been that I’ve been so busy, that I literally didn’t have any time to write one of my traditional long posts. [...]

Hey, I return after nearly missing for a month. This time, I won’t write about my current interests which revolve around computation in social sciences. This time I am writing to revisit politics. Actually, I don’t know why, after a month not having published an article I feel the urge to throw some random rant. [...]

First of all, I’m sorry for not having written for so long, but I am really busy. Anyway, this time was not wasted, since I have passed a large part of my free time dealing with new ideas.
These ideas revolve around computation and a possible formal framework of methodology in social sciences.
In this [...]

Hi there guys It’s been a long time that I haven’t written an article. The reason is that I have SO many things to do, that I really don’t have the time to update all my projects as often. Between my new projects, like Raskolnikov’s Dream and Musikality Net, I had to deal [...]

I haven’t written for sometime due to time constraints, but I decided to come back today to comment on an article I just read, before I lose my track of thoughts.
The article was published in Scientific American and is this: Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology
This article is written by Philosopher of science [...]

Stephen Wolfram
Lately I’ve been reading Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science.
Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathematics do, is to quantify problems, find regularities and then use equations to describe these regularities. What this [...]

In the latest post we talked about the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos: The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II). Since then, Greece continues to be shocked by riots, protests and various forms of resistance against authority.
Some people even managed to occupy the national tv network, at the same time, that [...]

Those of you who read Encefalus, probably remember this article: Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society
The reason I am mentioning this, is this article I found on the web: Ten Of The Most Controversial Books!
The latter article refers (pretty obviously) to books that [...]

Lately I’ve been digging into the subject of agent based models of social sciences. Agent based models are defined by wikipedia as following

An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals in a network, with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. [...]