(Yet Another) Critical Juncture in Our Evolution

[Mike Oliker]

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the albuquerque complexity group
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RETOOLING (see ACTIONS below)
What a natural thing for a complexity group to do.  The course approach is
complete and our situation as far as meeting place and time is in flux.  The
big question is this: WHAT DO YOU WANT COMPLEXITY GROUP TO BE?
 
[  ]-Informal social discussion group with a listserv, like FRIAM in Santa
Fe.  We could meet at a restaurant, share stuff on laptops or projected on
the wall (a nice dark coffeehouse?), and exchange ideas via a server like
YahooGroups provides.
[  ]-Mini-Course/Events: meet when we have a guest speaker or someone has a
body of ideas to present.  A Sandia Space may be available which is off the
base.
[  ]-Regular Meetings, as before.
[  ]-OTHER: ______________________________________
 
-Directions: what topics interest you?
    [  ] Social applications of Complexity: politics, economics, war and
peace, ethnocentrism, language, negotiations, game theory, etc.
    [  ] Biological applications: Evolution, Medicine, Body Systems, etc.
    [  ] Physical applications: Cosmology and the emergence of complexity,
critical phenomena
    [  ] Artistic/Mathematical Nexus: Symmetry, Geometry, Fractals, the
visual aspect of other simulations, Looking at Art and Music for chaos,
fractals and complexity
    [  ] Rigorous Mathematical treatment: the systematic study of simulated
systems looking for emergence and critical behavior
    [  ] Serious Hobbyist building simulations
    [  ] Local trade group for complexity professionals
    [  ] The subjective apprehension of chaos and complexity
    [  ] OTHER:___________________________________
 
ACTIONS
[  ] Join the Yahoo Group: ComplexityABQ:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComplexityABQ/
Anyone can join without an invitation.  When you join you can hide your
email or not, and can receive all emails or just the few that I, exalted
moderator, send out.  Please join ASAP, since this is how we will be
thinking through how we want to proceed.
 
[  ] Reply to this email, letting me know your preferences above.
 
I will be away until the middle of January.  I am canceling our January
meetings until we see what evolves out of this conversation.
 
Thanks for playing in this great big sandbox with me,
-MikeO
 
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