{"id":1720,"date":"2012-03-31T23:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:32:37","slug":"steps-to-a-natural-systems-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/steps-to-a-natural-systems-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps to a natural systems view"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years I’ve made various attempts to give people a good set of principles for introducing my way of observing and understanding the workings of natural environmental\u00a0systems <\/em>(1)<\/sup><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

9 steps of discovery<\/em><\/h3>\n

A suggestion that I try again resulted in the following page, describing 9 steps of discovery. They’re to be made meaningful to someone using them by leading to their discovering things they never would have guessed, about their own world. \u00a0 The goal is gaining a far better general understanding how nature creates and animates her very complexly well\u00a0organized\u00a0systems.<\/p>\n

The trick in all of it,
\nis that what we “see” is not what nature is doing, but what we’re thinking of,
\nmaking consciousness quite <\/em><\/span>different from reality.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The real world system of nature to understand are the various familiar and unfamiliar things that develop and work by themselves. \u00a0 That includes the weather, social systems, economies, ecologies, but also organisms, storms, currents, cultural events and emerging technologies,\u00a0etc. \u00a0 They’re also little things like rust spots that magically appear by themselves on your car or other small individual events.<\/p>\n

Emergent complex systems that take place “by themselves” in the sense of there being no evidence of central deterministic control, are also found in any spontaneous gesture like a smile, a handshake, or even the experience of personal feelings and thoughts, as form of complex organization in\u00a0nature\u00a0that come and go, and lack a pre-existing template for how to do that.<\/p>\n

These are clear case of nature having to invent the path in the process of building and\u00a0completing\u00a0the process. \u00a0 What opens the door to appreciating them is having a method of observation that fits them all, as following the enduring pattern for all scales and kinds of observable events as completing their own individual life-cycle.<\/p>\n

The critical observation is to answer the question “what’s piling up” NOT “what’s the formula”. \u00a0 It’s only theory that world by formulas. \u00a0Nature works by piling up, so that’s what you study when the subject is how can nature behave in a way not in our formulas.<\/p>\n

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Observation (2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

something about both the thing developing is “in-spired”<\/em> from inside
\nand why the environment it is in makes that possible<\/h4>\n

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1)\u00a0The Art of Observation<\/a> from\u00a0Physics for Open Systems<\/a>, and added resources:<\/em><\/p>\n