to Complex M from Lewis L Smith "Dismoved" asks, "What is not a complex system" ? Well, in the first place, it would be one that does not...
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This came in while is was sending this out to a non ISCE reader... ... FWIW and the synchronicity of your post, "In his book, Life on the Mississippi, he...
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Jan 3, 2006 6:39 pm
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... What is not a complex system? Yes, we like to keep things simple, yet to enjoy the sublime nature of comprehending the essence of our nature is the ...
to Complex M from Lewis L Smith Thanks for the surperb quote. Twain, already someone to admire, as gone up even farther in my...
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Jan 4, 2006 8:45 pm
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Lewis, here is a remark to two of your posts in the same topic: the one upon the book you received from your daughter and this one Here you specified the...
HI all! Trying to define complex systems too closely leads one into an intellectual swamp. My favorite is this: A complex system is one whose behavior is as...
May i offer ' increasing wholeness' - in honour of an old friend, At de Lange ? warm wishes, AC...
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Jan 6, 2006 3:53 pm
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Ken, over the years we drifted in different directions of the same topic. You regained more and more of the reasonable, while I allowed myself to drift more...
John, You're absolutely right. All "systems" are holons that are part of larger systems until we reach the "system" that is the sum of all systems. In my more...
To all: In the spirit of minimalism, complexity might be regarded as that not simple. Consider a campfire for instance--certain statements are known to be...
to Complex M from Lewis L Smith Ref John Mikes posting of O4 Jan, above subject. After reading this posting over several...
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to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith ... Nice try but no cigar. I suspect that statistically that a lot of the time, the opposite is true....
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All, I remain fascinated that every year or so, possibly just after the holidaze (thanks, Jon, for that word, a new one for me), this debate pops up. And the ...
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Jan 8, 2006 5:31 pm
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All, This week's Perspectives column in the New Scientist has an interesting article on complexity and evolution as a 'theory of everything' by Eric Chaisson...
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Jan 8, 2006 5:32 pm
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... much ... composition..."< Is there ANYTHING else conceivable? John M ... === message truncated ===...
to Complex-M from Lewis L Smith Allow me to suggest several reasons why the complexity community keeps searching for mutually...
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Jan 9, 2006 1:41 pm
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Greetings All, I hope this e-mail finds everyone well, in good spirits and health. Rather spontaneously, last week I was passing through the local bookstore in...
John: The point of conception might be referenced as one of uncertainty, i.e., either the behaviour or the environment may be observed and characterized but...
Ken, How do we define anything? How do we define what definition is? I'm not being trite here. I believe that "paradigms", or "metaparadigms", which I think...
Lewis, You seem to take the general approach that "complexity" is "out there" and that it can be objectively identified. My understanding is that each of us as...
Darren, I too have been reading this interesting book and find it thought-provoking although a little hard to grasp. The answer to your question at the end of...
Marty: I think you misunderstood me. I tried to point out that Ken's definition includes ALL. Like: "this number is either smaller, or equal, or larger than...
Dear Colleagues: The Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS) is sponsoring a symposium on design concepts in evolutionary thought. Exploration of the...
to ISCE Cx M list from Lewis L Smith The Stanford conjecture is a provisional definition of a comples system designed to enable operating...
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Jan 18, 2006 11:15 pm
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Jon, Michel Foucault spent his career examining where our modes of thinking -- he calls them espisteme -- come from. His book, The Order of Things, is probably...
Hello Jerry C, Thanks very much for the post on the event. I am in the middle of a paper that maybe a submission. Two questions: 1)how detail the abstract is...
Hi Darren and Buck, I am glad to see people reading Presence, it was Andrew Campnona who put me on to this through http://www.ottoscharmer.com/ which is well...
Hi everyone, Below is an announcement and a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO). The subject of the...
Hello List, If you visit the www.dialogonleadership.org web site you'll find a set of interviews, the site has two menu pages for all its interviews, plus a...
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Jan 19, 2006 6:25 pm
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Hi Andrew, You are not going mad, or if you are, so are the rest of us reading this book. I agree totally with your comments. I have read most of Singe's and...
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