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Does he touch on how growth is self-destabilizing? (Or on where the control points are to let us dodge the bullet ourselves?) Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group' > Subject: RE: [FRIAM] necsi conference > > > 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
