Enrolled in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America
Feb 2025 #5680556, bio pending, MarquisWW.com
Jessie Lydia Henshaw
Research Natural Systems Scientist and Teacher
at HDS Natural Systems Design Science
Awarded for her creative work and presence in the struggle to understand our choices as humanity’s relation to the earth goes through its ongoing great change of life.
– Her first hint of the real great change of life our lives face, that society even now has failed to notice was in a 1964 first-year college physics class. It was that physics studied things represented by formulas, which… meant physics couldn’t study the active creative processes of nature, such as the process of **growth** that animates all of life. That’s a gigantic omission and blind spot for all of science, helping explain why people have gotten into so very much trouble managing growth processes, blind to nature’s very natural rules.
Today’s Who’s Who press release that announces my selection.
A little more of the
physics of system design she discovered is
offered here in hopefully easily understood terms.
Now that we can see that what we observe in nature is composed of self-organizing systems, not controlled by equations, we can start fitting our observations to what is there in a more productive way. Yes, it presents a major problem for science, but it puts us back on track. Eventually, we’ll find that the meanings of verbal language, formed around words coined for meaningful designs of nature *in context,* will be what we use to explain science, not the other way around.
For example, we’ll find that growth is both an energizing and exploratory process of a system that builds upon itself, utilizing resources from and responding to its environmental surroundings. We and all other animals do all day, moving from one thing to the next, doing what works for us. The regular doubling process of startup growth, needed to get things going, also results in having little time to do it before either the disruptive burst of growth or its sudden end upsets itself. That’s a huge part of the “game of life,” of finding what can be assembled within the limits of time.
Any kind of growth process starts very small and expands by capturing resources found in its context. That’s very familiar, as organisms and weather, even events like laughter, all develop from some germinal coupling that creatively evolves in interaction with its surroundings. The second critically important part is that growth is a “startup” process, which regularly doubles its rates of change and, as such, is inherently self-terminating due to differing internal limits of connection.
So, growth is a
relatively short-lived energizing process that our economic system relies on being
perpetual.
QED – we’ll change
Yikes! Another significant way the natural design of systems conflicts with scientific assumptions is that the primary components of nature—the working systems—have independently developed both internal and external organization, just as we do ourselves. These unexpected functional differences between nature, composed of animated self-organization, and physics and economics, which both describe nature with formulas, *tremendously* influence the real choices in the former that we’ll be able to find with the latter.
These discoveries were made by “looking around,” carefully studying the contexts of the events or situations of particular interest. The question becomes, if everything starts with a short-lived startup process, then what?
HDS natural systems design science
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Research Site
Reading Nature’s Signals – Publication – LinkedIn World Measure