Now that what I've been talking and warning about the danger of, and explaining how to avoid, reduce the impact of or then mitigate, is happening, what I'm doing? It looks as if my 'job' of making any kind of learning about the systems phenomenon underlying it appear silly is finished, so I can end the extra time off I took to push every avenue I could find, and can now go back to work again. It seems I accepted a new job, to coordinate the architectural detailing of St. Patrick's Cathedral renovation starting Monday... so I'll again have something productive to do. :-) Stuff works in weird ways I guess.
Where I got to was that the form of our models is conceptually different from the form of nature, in that nature has loads of independent parts with their own behaviors, so only a model of questions could ever be consistent with it, not a model of answers. So, for making models we can trust, it's inherent in nature that declaring failure is the key to success. Hey! No wonder it didn't go over. Phil ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
