The Story

1999-03-05 Thread ralphsc
Doc (and anybody else), What Doc describes reminds me of the stuff Tom Berry and Brian Swimme talk about in "The Universe Story," a layman's guide to the last 15 billions years since the Big Bang. They describe some fundamental, life-governing principles of the universe, autopiesis being one of t

Self-organising, et al

1999-03-05 Thread Alan Stewart
G'day all Here is an item that you may find of value with regard to this fascinating issue. I sent a copy of Jay Vogt's response to Birgitt's query to my friend and newly appointed President of the American Cybernetics Society, Pille Bunnell. She has given permission to post it here, with the com

Re: Self-organizing, et al.

1999-03-05 Thread owen
>Ralph... > >you are a self-organizing system. you don't need to go beyond your "self" >to find a complex adaptive system either. I won't write about CAS >here...perhaps I can just say that the terms CAS and living systems are >nearly synonymous, just not quite. DOC ***

Open Space Training!

1999-03-05 Thread Barry Owen
Greetings! We cancelled the Open Space Technology training that was scheduled for the end of January. I arranged with the hotel that we would definitely do the event so they have agreed to reschedule it for November 15-19, 1999. I would like to begin getting the word out that this is happening and