Abstract
An intriguing heuristic model of development, decline, and change conceived by Bernard J.F. Lonergan (BL) in the late 1940’s was laid out in a manner now recognizable as representing an early model of complexity. This report is a first effort toward eventually translating that qualitative vision, designated Emergent Probability (EP), into a viable network computer study.
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Bretz, M. (2008). Emergent Probability. In: Minai, A.A., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73849-7_14
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