{"id":1500,"date":"2011-06-10T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:00:47","slug":"seminar-on-my-work-at-june-2011-foo-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/seminar-on-my-work-at-june-2011-foo-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on my work at June 2011 Foo Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aleks Jakulin<\/a> is a systems scientist, entrepreneur and professor at Columbia University, a very interesting guy, who was invited to present at the June 2011\u00a0Foo Camp meeting<\/a> information space hackers and scientists. The invitation is to present the work of someone else, a nice twist, and Aleks chose to present my work, also incorporating some of my years of discussing our approaches to general systems theory with our mutual friend\u00a0Stan Salthe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSystem archetypes & anarchitypes\u2026<\/strong> because my interest has always being in the natural processes that are \u201cmodel breaking\u201d, like the enduring eventfulness of change and how events are reliably individualistic. Below are some of the notes and images he\u2019ll be working from as he builds a conversation on the subject.<\/p>\n

Once you have a reliable image for something, an impression, a belief, an equation or rule, how can you keep clear in your thinking that it\u2019s something of your own invention? Failing to do so seems to be central to the \u201ccurse of knowledge\u201d that people can only look into the past, and our rules for things often leave us horribly unprepared for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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People might question studying system archetypes for why they\u2019ll be temporary. Partly it\u2019s that knowing where to look for trouble saves time when scanning an environment for important information missing from your model. That in turn leaves you more time for adapting or finding another path of evolution to replace one not worth preserving.<\/p>\n

1)\tWhat\u2019s the archetype of uniqueness in nature, the defining character of individuality? – Happenings without an archetype to follow? We also call it \u201ceventfulness\u201d or \u201canimation\u201d like a flame that invents every single flicker as it occurs, Or \u201clearning & discovery\u201d \u201cemergence\u201d \u201cevolution\u201d as systems emerge<\/p>\n

2)\tTaking increasing control of their local environments to see where that leads: – Graduate to new environments and new relationships on other scales that change them.<\/p>\n

3)\tSo we define it more by what it is not, but then also providing a locus: – for where to discover natural \u201chappenings\u201d and how they are defining themselves; Pointing to the organizationally \u201cimpossible\u201d leaps they must somehow find a continuity for achieving; & study the remarkably smooth ways everyday happening behaviors exhibit that as they begin and end<\/p>\n

4)\tWe study the\u00a0common system archetypes<\/a>: – Like positive or negative feedback, divergence and correction, limiting conditions, etc.; Or other describable behavioral states identified as\u00a0cybernetic \u201cbody parts\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

5)\tBut not as stable system designs, no, but as temporarily system designs; Studied for how they produce irreversible changes in their own conditions: – That will lead to allowing their own transformation into other things<\/p>\n

6)\tHuman beliefs are not like that. They can remain unchallengeable:- Despite any kind of change in the environment they came from, if that\u2019s what you want.
\n7)\tUnavoidably temporary processes make up individually animated systems and how they progress. – Studied as temporary regularities the system will soon not be doing; Leading to conditions in which others behaviors will emerge, like life.<\/p>\n

8)\tNot all individually animated systems are \u201cliving\u201d in the usual sense, but: – Every living system is individually animated ; and there seem to be many and diverse varieties of other unstudied kinds; often given common names for their external appearance rather than their internal successions of change.<\/p>\n

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PDF file of Draft Foo Camp Talk<\/a> with alternate topics not selected as well<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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