[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2006.01 - 01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2006.01#23510 06/01/05 [ Your Message ] Happy New Year to All Our Readers and Friends! Recent Webcasts with Michael Crichton < http://www.complexsys.org/news.htm > and Ralph Abraham < http://www.comdig.org/article.php?id_article=23471 > Webcast Archive: http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/ The Logic of Invention, SFI Working Papers Excerpts: This essay explores the process by which radically novel technologiesÑones such as radar, the turbojet, or the polymerase chain reactionÑcome into being. It shows that this process of ÒinventionÓ (or origination, as I prefer to call it) has a certain logical structure common to all cases. Origination is a process of linking some purpose or need with an effect that can be exploited to satisfy it. (...) Origination is a process of recursive problem solving. (...) Source: The Logic of Invention[ http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/wpabstract/200512045 ], W. Brian Arthur, DOI: SFI-WP 05-12-045, SFI Working Papers You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=23510