[FRIAM] necsi conference

[Phil Henshaw]

(Growth + Development + Ecosystems + Phenomenology x Paperback) =
(immediate purchase)

Does he touch on how growth is self-destabilizing?  (Or on where the
control points are to let us dodge the bullet ourselves?)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Guerin [mailto:stephen.guerin at redfish.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:49 PM
> To: sy at synapse9.com; '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:sy at synapse9.com]
> > 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
> > > 
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