Manlio De Domenico

Professor of Physics of #ComplexSystems & Network Scientist @ University of Padua.

Statistical Physics of interacting systems: from cells to societies. I curate #ComplexityThoughts

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2023-09-03 23:00:05

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Thank you for building up on my question, Nicole. I have given for granted the reason behind it, but it's not granted.
Establishing what is a machine can allow one to engineer other systems in a similar way. That is, I am confident that there are some machines that can be designed by scratch by us for a given purpose.
The usual rationale is "if it's a machine then there's a fixed blueprint, and it's just a matter of discovering the blueprint"
This is linked to my direct question: it's likely that there are distinct classes of machines and only some of them can be represented by a fixed blueprint.
Roughly speaking: keeping aside all the specific details at the corresponding scales, is a cell a machine like a mechanical watch? What about the human brain? What about the human body, and what about the society as a whole?
Discovering the blueprint of an efficient machine at one scale can provide hints or guidelines for designing better machine at other scales, or just to better understand/use/build on them.
The whole issue is to establish which type of machines allow this and under which (formal/operational) conditions.
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2023-09-03 16:52:46

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In fact my questions are more about classifying machines in a systematic way.
I can't deal with non-operational definitions.
Parts doing what together? Do they have a purpose? Are they designed or natural? Is their purpose designed or emergent?
Otherwise, everything is a machine, also an hurricane.
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