It occurs to me that Saturday's events are a wonderful example of
at least
a 'rising' mentality in society, similar to dominance - subdominance in
genetics, except fluid, perhaps the most forceful expression of the
process of the mentality of conservation achieving dominance (not
fully, yet, of
Good morning!
On 4/14/07, Marcus G. Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt,
For the social scientist, the approach raises two problems:
1) Too much reflection means too much attention to models of the world.
To ask the right questions means having unbiased data on how people in
some
On 4/14/07, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, let me ask the question less coyly. Most of the impact of complexity
has been to tunnel under and loosen the foundations of ordinary science.
Is that correct, or is it not? One of the important messages of
complexity is that no
Matthew Francisco wrote:
A system for knowing, for reflecting on reality; that's science, isn't
it? A social system for reflecting on reality also fits the
description of religion too (assuming that you accept a belief in what
one is refleciting on is reality). We all know that there is a
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
What can complexity science do other than humble us all? If scientists
dont induct, then they dont DEduct because every deduction requires an
induction along the way. So what DO we do? Build social consensus?
Ugh
I'd say just do our best to make contingency
More good questions.
The easy way to solve that is to recognize that you may not be able to
answer all the questions you'd like, but you can answer some. Just be
smart. With natural complex systems pay attention to the questions you
can answer!!
The fact that no physical thing can be
Re strong positionalities to observed (e.g. social) phenomena; vision
quests and implications of Complexity, Heisenberg etc. and collectively
digesting them. Is anybody here familiar with say Alfred Korzybski's - late
30s Science and Sanity and the work built on it
Well,
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Ok, let me ask the question less coyly. Most of the impact of complexity
has been to tunnel under and loosen the foundations of ordinary science.
Aeration (in moderation) is good for the garden. One likes to believe
we can do more,
though.
Is that
Hi all,
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Thanks,
Tim Densmore
FRIAM
Reflexivity is one of those terms... Nice and neat in set theory,
a relation R is reflexive in set A iff for all a in A aRa is true.
Then there's the ethnomethodology version, which means talk and
situation dynamically co-constitute each other. Then there's the
focused ethno version I
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