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well.. lost a great post because web mail times out...
Marcus,
Responding to your post of last night. You said "it is necessary to
invest only in those ideas where a broadly-defined payoff can be
estimated". But what makes nature so successful in creatively
responding to change seems to me to be that she creatively explores
every possibility. Of course, metaphorically, it would be a waste of
time to read every magazine cover each time you stopped at a news
stand for a piece of gum. What I think's important is that you take
any first impression you get and push it this way and that in an
exploratory way to experimentally see if there's anything of interest
hidden behind its strange features.
I think your question was whether there are examples of when the
principle that growth is destabalizing is a better explanation than
what people usually say. That might mean 'better' in offering more
useful choices or in terms of offerning more satisfying images. For
people who are not interested in or know how to apply general
principles, or who just want to talk for pleasure, the anecdotal
associations between particulars of familiar situations are probably
more satisfying, and they'd need help to learn how to be guided by a
general principle.
For those who know about general principles, they offer better
explanations particularly for situations never encountered before, in
this case for where the multiplying internal and external strains of
growth are beginning to overwhelm the system's internal and/or
external environments. Then connecting cause and effect with the
model gives you the new choice to do what nature does most gracefully
sometimes, to redirect the feedbacks toward building sustainable
systems and away from building unsustainable ones.
Almost any person who has run a business is familiar with this switch,
gaging internal and external strains that develop with growth and the
timing of when to ease back on the self-multiplication at some optimal
level. They just don't interpret what they normally do through a
general principal for the succession of developmental changes in
systems.
... well, I think I got most of it.
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Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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