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Common Sense of Natural Systems
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The common explanation is that new natural processes begin when an organizational short-cut for moving energy multiplies as finds more opportunities for it develop more and more easily. Then as the larger opportunities end in successively smaller ones it either come to an end or stabilizes as an individual .
Using phrases like ‘short-cut’, ‘finds’, ‘opportunity’, ‘easily’, ‘individual’ are words meant to suggest an aspect of ‘animism’ for independent systems that is open to interpretation is any case, and is mostly an easy way of referring to kinds of change that develop independently in relation to local circumstances.
The idea is that this provides a way to ask questions about organizational change that can be seen as originating from growth and ending in decay, relatively simple but mysterious things ‘a gust of wind’ or ‘fire’ as well as complex things such as economies and organisms.
Some parts of change are controlled and predetermined by others. This is about the uncontrolled change,. usually involving diverse and widely distributed behavior, starting as little ‘short-cuts’ that grow and develop as a whole.
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Natural systems are something like machines in that they are physical things with locations, their own independent organization composed of relations of parts and use energy.
1. They have ‘mechanisms’ of various sorts, though frequently their ‘parts’ are not rigidly connected. There are other continuities to watch for what is connected change energy from one form to another.
2. They’re very different from machines in that their designs develop on their own from a ‘discovered’ opportunity within an environment, and are always fluidly changing.
3. Sometimes their
continual changes are more in relation to themselves, sometimes more in
relation to their environments.
· machines and equations and fixed
rules can’t don’t build themselves or change their designs in relation to
their environments.
4. Change in natural systems takes a process of changing, so when there’s an
organizational difference between ‘before’ & ‘after’, it’s likely you’ll be
able to find what opportunity for it developed by successively larger and
then successively smaller steps.
5. natural systems have many of the same natural limits as machines. They begin and end, use energy in irreducible amounts, and can be stressed to failure.