Top 3 aspects people get wrong about Agent Based Modeling

[@socialcomplexitydinocarpen6372]

Ok, I'm finally back on KZbin! It took me quite a lot of time, but this time we should have many more videos coming up. I know many of you wrote comments to older videos, so in the next days I will start by responding to those comments. In the meanwhile, if you have any questions, comments or ideas, let me know here in the comments. Ciao!

[@reasonerenlightened2456]

Could you make sure there is at least one comment in each of your videos so that I can comment by replying to a comment. KZbin does no allow me to start a comment. It only lets me reply to comments.

[@alessandropala2780]

Love the quality improvement on this one!

[@bartdebruin6999]

I have a question regarding toy models. If they are only useful to explain how certain stylezed rules might lead to some stylized outcomes. What then is the purpose of toymodels if they only remain stylized and can not say anything useful about the real world?

[@tubesteaknyouri]

Interesting channel. Thanks! I would be interested in a video that breaks down an ABM model from a paper and shows how to implement it in Mesa or Agents.jl.

[@socialcomplexitydinocarpen6372]

Thank you very much for the idea! I don't know julia, but I may do it with Mesa!

[@reasonerenlightened2456]

​@@socialcomplexitydinocarpen6372 I would make the conjecture that in your video about "the Whole is more than the sum of its parts" you neglected to explore that the Whole creates a Surplus by accumulation/concentration/transformation of some quantities and qualities and the reduction of other quantities and qualities which the disjoined parts can never do. You said in the video, The sum is the disjoined parts plus the interactions between them, but I would add, which then create the Surplus. In other words, the Whole has capabilities which none of the parts can have. You want an example? Yes? The human brain is made of simple agents that perform 1) a very simple task of getting excited under certain conditions. 2) They communicate their excitement very well 3) They are very well connected The Surplus , a.k.a the added "more", by these simple agents called neural cells results in .... a human civilisation with rockets, music, arts, science, etc. ... which none of them can do alone or if connected poorly.