Phil:
I like your model, and especially so if we can figure out ways to drill down
analytically into the various levels of data that should be found in the
period between Before and After. And I just may use it in a lecture in a
few weeks (with all due attribution, of course).
You wrote: "....seem to be a natural misunderstanding coming from our being
swept up in a vast change in reality."
Was that a reference to a theoretical change in reality, or do you have some
specifics in mind?
-tj
On 12/16/06, Phil Henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We definitely need better models of complex system events. Here's
another, to help imagine growth as a spontaneous evolutionary process,
as if an organizational 'fire' that begins with a 'spark' of change.
It's obvious enough that growth systems produce rapid change in complex
systems without a template or discrete determinants from the outside,
but growth is often so smooth, fast, and 'sure footed' that it's hard to
imagine it as evolutionary. Maybe this alternate model helps, by
telling the story of a complex system step change by growth as if in QM
notation 'before||after', with the period between the marks consisting
of an evolving internal process discovering its place in an unknown
world. It starts with the generally unobservable 'earth shaking boom'
of an unstable pattern of change forming that will multiply
dramatically, zooming to a point of discovering it's own limits and a
'big wow' as the future comes into its view, to perhaps then be
transformed by that reversal in the environmental responses into a
sustainable system.
*ahhh* --
x
x
x
*w O w*
m
o
o
z
-- *boom* x
before | B o o m, Z o o m, W o w, Ahhh-- | after
something clicks, takes off, discovers it's place, and settles in
During the 'zoom' the environment appears limitless from the perspective
of the growth cell, and in the 'ahhh--' the stabilization of new form
becomes satisfying by resolving the start-up cell's unstable
contradictions. Humanity's institutional rules that the 'zoom' is never
to be allowed to stop.... seem to be a natural misunderstanding coming
from our being swept up in a vast change in reality.
It's good to note that in living systems what comes 'after' is often
unequivocally the best part.
Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸
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