Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-19 Thread Nick Thompson
Behalf Of glen Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 2:04 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization" This post successfully describes my thoughts ... and in a criticism of my favorite "economist" von Hayek to boot! http://evo

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-19 Thread glen
This post successfully describes my thoughts ... and in a criticism of my favorite "economist" von Hayek to boot! http://evonomics.com/cognitive-economics-intelligence-mulgan/ > It’s an appealing view. But self-organization is not an altogether-coherent > concept and has often turned out to be

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-13 Thread Nick Thompson
sity http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 12:16 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-13 Thread Prof David West
Hi Nick, My opinion - We, observing human beings, perceive "organization"- some sort of order, structure, pattern, etc. Some of us might ask, "from whence that organization?" At least three possibilities occur to us: 1) it is an illusion, like seeing a horsey or a ducky in the clouds; 2) "God" d

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-12 Thread Eric Smith
Hi Nick, I will speak only for myself: This is another of those unfortunate terms, like Emergence, which is used by a variety of people in a variety of contexts to — they intend — refer to any ones among a variety of ideas that certainly are not operationally all the same, even if some of them