From: phil henshaw Wednesday, September 23, 2006 8:09 PM To: ‘overpopulation@googlegroups.com’ Subject: RE: religion and overpopulation Bob, Perhaps if you thought of each kind of intelligence as a different language, only capable of receiving and interpreting certain kinds of nature’s phrases, you’d get the meaning of ‘cultural’ that I intended. There’s women’s intelligence, for example, often quite different … Continue reading Can ‘intelligence’ have an impact?→
To: overpopulation@googlegroups.com All, I can hear that having a clear direction would be a relief and its own reward. The direction I hear being taken, though, is one that sounds the same as the ones taken many times before with much effort and commitment, and I don’t hear any sense of curiosity about how the … Continue reading Religion and Overpopulation→
Stan, Approximation sweeps away ‘fuzziness’, and one thing your and my conceptions are completely consistent on is “any system during its development moves from being more vague to becoming more definitely embodied”. There are issues in differentiating descriptive, explanatory, and organizational/behavioral ‘fuzziness’, but it’s those “fuzzy bits” that are the main thing approximation sweeps away. … Continue reading RE: internalism…&things missing from approximation→
Anyone in charge of almost any kind of organization, throwing a party, running a business, etc., will want it to build up to a point where it’s exciting, but not to where you loose control. You usually want things to approach the edge of stability, but not go over it to lose resilience. It’s fun, … Continue reading Risky Play→
By 2020 the investors of the world will see their self-interest and stop compounding their returns, allowing the global economy to climax at a high stable rate of change, forestalling the climax of investment with a loss of resilience, expectation failures, environmental collapse, conflict and mistakes. The real limit of economic growth is the loss … Continue reading By 2020 – The Year of Clear Vision→
New systems science, how to care for natural uncontrolled systems in context
