从计算机模拟方法到计算主义的哲学思考——基于复杂系统科学哲学的角度

A View on Complex Systems from Computer Simulation Methods to Computationalism

计算机模拟方法已成为研究当代复杂系统的核心方法。当我们试图用计算机模拟任一实际的复杂系统时,在我们假定复杂系统的行为遵循某些算法或规则时,事实上我们已经在考虑该系统是否具有可计算性的问题。这样的一种研究思路实际上与当代计算主义的主题互相支持。相对于计算主义的强纲领,使用计算机模拟方法研究复杂系统的进路属于认识论与方法论上的计算主义,它只是研究社会复杂系统的一种方式。

Computer simulation methods have become the core approach to study complex systems. In fact ,we have considered whether the system is computability when we try to simulate any of the actual complex systems using computer simulation and we assume that the behavior of complex systems follows certain algorithms or rules. The idea actually supports the subject of contemporary computationalism each other. Comparing with the strong program of the eomputationalism, the approach of using computer simula- tion methods to study complex systems belongs to the eomputationalism in the epistemology and methodol- ogy. It is just a way to study social complex systems.