[FRIAM] necsi conference

[Stephen Guerin]

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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