Dear Russ #3 Emerence is an all-night party. Hard to be late to. I, however, am lost in Mathematical Thinking at the moment, and so will cede this inquiry to others.
Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: Russell Gonnering <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 1/18/2010 4:24:27 PM > Subject: [FRIAM] Emergence > > > I know I've come to the party late, but I was fascinated by Russ Abbott's essay in Complexity, 2006. CT has so much to give to the health care debate, and so few people interested in exploring it. Even ardent "complexionists" (?) sometimes deny health care as a CAS. Value in health care is an emergent concept. Attempts at imposed order, without recognition of emergent order and starting point, will push the system into chaos (ala David Snowden's "Cynefin Framework"). > > Russ Gonnering ("Russ #3" > > ============================================================ > 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 ============================================================ 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
