Reading Nature’s Signals

These are mostly a small sampling of emails that I thought might be interesting for people to browse.   Nature’s signals of change mostly have to do with what’s accumulating, opportunity and complications, that signal the presence of emergent systems or ones that are about to.   See my web site for a range of theory, studies and comment.

It’s about finding a new kind of meaning in the physical world, about time as a process rather than a location, a ‘work in progress’ you might say.   It’s also and about developmental change as environmental learning processes that contain their memory in their arrangement.  That like considering your body as the genetic structure of your behavior…. It’s what your behavior works with, contiaining all the options you have.

It’s also about learning to recognize uncontrolled individual natural systems as guided by their learning processes.   An economy is an uncontrolled natural system, powered by the choices of people, that has accumulative learning that produces complex growth, stability and collapse, and other permanent changes of design.   Whole systems learning changes both its parts and the whole.  

To learn about what’s happening in one such individual system it pays to learn about lots of others.   My website has more direct discussion of how to do that. 

Most people assume that physical things behave according to physical laws, deterministically, and that their local learning processes are just following formulas not yet understood.   That ‘indisputable’ assertion (for lack of evidence) visibly conflicts with what we planely see, though.   Nature is full of individuals learning about their local environments in a way no other will ever discover.   So our minds have been sort of trained not to see the way in which original design and behavior develops.   Because it partly means learning how to consider your assumptions as variables, one needs to *look* for things that diverge from your expectations.   As long as you only look for answers and not for the problem, you may never see what you should be looking for.   

I thought sharing some fairly ordinary conversation about it might help.  Please feel free to add your comments or add your own as a guest author.    You can login to post as ‘guest’ with ‘user’ as the password.  Please only post in the “guest” category.  Be brief, but say what you like.  We’ll see how it works.  If it lets people converse with each other a little here it will be great.

phil