Reading Nature’s Signals

Post to FRIAM following yesterday’s post (appended) re: Stewart Kauffman’s ”Reinventing the sacred” lecture, linked 
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So, partly prompted by how it seemed Kauffman got there.    There’s a particularly curious “hiding place” for nature’s accumulative individuality and complex behavior within an otherwise “deterministic” universe obeying universal natural laws…     
It’s the somewhat deceptive meaning of “uncertainty”.    If you prove an uncertainty […]

note: Dan had commented ” I SEE NO WAY OUT FROM THIS MESS. but it won’t hit the fan until 200, 400 more years…. until then, maybe until 2100 at least, we will muddle along….and the climate tsunami, when it hits, it won’t hit all at once, like in Thailand, it will hit the beach here slowly, over a […]

Dirk & all,  (re: recent discussion of new issues)
There are a lot of reasons for people with different approaches to a problem, like steering a planet that is visibly veering off course, to listen to each other. Collectively we’re missing the main problem somehow. If we leave our thinking “to the experts” or just answer […]

(this is a letter to John smart that bounced… but I like)
John,  I’m very interested in your Evo-Devl Universe project.  http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/index.php/Project 
There are some interesting examples of development, that operate by multi-level selection, even a very nice clear example for a case of punctuated equilibrium in a little plankton species.    The math is a little […]

[in a paper in Science in February, Tim Searchinger of Princeton and R. A. Houghton of Woods Hole et. all. surprised the scientific world by documenting the oversights in calculating the environmental impacts of bio-fuels, consuming food resources and producing CO2 by stimulating the conversion of productive ecologies into farms.   These letters clarify some of the issues that were left […]