Hi Phil, Your comments remind me a little of Bob Ulanowicz's interest in the distinction between 'growth' and 'development'. http://tinyurl.com/znqw6
Have you read any of his stuff? -Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Henshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:50 PM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] necsi conference > > Thanks, There certainly seems to be a lot going on; 32 > major speakers > and 320 papers in 16 sessions! > > I searched the NECSI site for the subject of 'growth' and > found 44 pages. There was no mention of NECSI's growth > itself, though that might > have been interesting. All but 7 hits were NECSI06 conference > abstracts. Only one clearly referred to dynamic system > growth as involving changes in the organization of the > system... Everyone seems to assume growth refers to the > shape of a curve, and not what's > happening inside the thing producing the curve. > > That seems remarkable given that a) growth curves are most > commonly evidence of internal loops in local processes that > are emerging as a system, and b) almost anything we can > interpret as a natural system > traceably comes into being by growth. > > Shouldn't we use the curves to help point us toward what > they're coming from? > > > > > > > > I'm at the NECSI conference in Boston this week and > recommend a look > > at the program web page with links to abstracts and papers, > > http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06. > > Extremely interesting variety of presentations. > > > > Mike > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays > 9a-11:30 at cafe > > at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at > > http://www.friam.org > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
