http://synapse9.com/blog conversation Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's not here yet is your post! ;-)   As long as it does not become a burden you can login as 'guest' with 'user' as the password.  Please only post in the 'guest' category, clicking a radio button on the right of the edit window. http://synapse9.com/blog/2008/04/13/what-not-here/ Hi folks, ....this week's global run on credit seems like a casebook example of how a natural system failure to provide growing physical returns on investment would effect financial commitments for growing financial returns. The naturally conflict. One thing we can do is watch it closely, so others may learn from our ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/08/18/whether-successfully-averted-for-the-moment-or-not/ Posted to FRIAM 1/27/07   So I didn't get takers on the question of what internal limits to growth apply when there are no external limits.   It's sort of a trick question.  My approach to the answer has to do with the difference between physical and theoretical systems.  Mostly we think about ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/27/the-internal-limits-riddle/ Posted to COTE Forum 1/27/07   Jodi, Well, not compounding your returns has the same sort of Catch 22 that doing great sustainable design and having the profits go to pumping up the world's appetites does.   You need to build a broader reason fordoing the right thing.   For sustainable design we definitely do ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/27/schematic-design-of-sustainability/ posted to AIA COTE forum 1/20/07   Steering feedback systems is tricky... Anyone who has changed jobs and had to move investment accounts is familiar with the temptation to buy funds that are high, and just about to fall, and get rid of ones that are low, and just about to rise. Emotional ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/20/buy-high-sell-low/ post to FRIAM 1/20/07  marking a map to help navigating the sysems territory One of the things that Roger's comments bring out about the discontinuities you find in tracing organism growth (epigenesis) is the question of markers.   Normal single growth curves are famous for representing huge changes and having almost no markers at all to signify what's really happening.    There really are only two ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/20/easy-to-mark/ Posted to [FRIAM] 1/13/07 --------------------------- Hugh, On thing worth adding is the reason it's useful to consider the maze of instrumental behaviors that constitute systems in the context of the whole envelope of their developments (¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸)from beginning to end. It turns the mystery of complex developmental systems into the puzzle of ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/13/re-fun-and-sandpiles/ Posted to AIA COTE forum 1/11/07 A great old oak that's been the center of it's neighborhood for decades, home to wild life and children's play, a long labor for leaf raking and thing of beauty in every season, began it's life with exponential growth that was equally splendid in its ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/12/what-do-you-tell-a-tree/ Posted to the AIA Committee on the Environment Forum 1/6/07   ...... It violates normality... but isn't the more remarkable thingourrelative national silence about the whole torrent of authentic new evidence of rapid change in the climate ? No one anywhere seems to be up in arms about it, when beating ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2007/01/06/70-degrees-in-new-york-today/ to JB 12/22/06 w/ minor ed. JB, I'm writing you from south Florida between trips into the Everglades and out on the Keys. It's fascinating how many ecosystems you can fit in a small place when you really try! The weather has been cloudy by very pleasant, 80 deg., warm sun & ... http://synapse9.com/blog/2006/12/27/ishmael/