maybe an example would help...

[Phil Henshaw-2]

The eventful flow conversation in the NY Times about 'sustainability' is
clearly displayed in frequency of published items using that term from
1996 to 2006.  It's both a good object lesson on how to identify
emergent systems using growth curves, and a peek at where the
sustainable design movement is coming from and going to, see also
http://www.synapse9.com/SustainabilityNYT.htm or just the graph
http://www.synapse9.com/SustNYT-10yrUseS.jpg 
 
 

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[Phil Henshaw-2]

I think what's so hard to get a started with in this is that it's about
how things work that are out of control.   It's about what's feeding
things rather than what's driving them, for example.    
 
Because the beginning and ending of autonomous complex systems is
explosive, that recognizable pattern can be used as a key.  
 
 

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The eventful flow conversation in the NY Times about 'sustainability' is
clearly displayed in frequency of published items using that term from
1996 to 2006.  It's both a good object lesson on how to identify
emergent systems using growth curves, and a peek at where the
sustainable design movement is coming from and going to, see also
http://www.synapse9.com/SustainabilityNYT.htm or just the graph
http://www.synapse9.com/SustNYT-10yrUseS.jpg 
 
 

Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
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680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: [phone]                
e-mail: id <mailto:pfh at synapse9.com> @synapse9.com          
explorations:  <http://www.synapse9.com/> www.synapse9.com    
 

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[Phil Henshaw-2]

As physics develops a versatile inside point of view, to complement it's
well developed outside point of view, it will become very much more
useful to everyone.   How that will happen may not be 'linear', perhaps
needing some new concepts instead of just figuring things out in terms
of the old ones.   It might even involve people diving in and getting
very wet.   Still, we'll find It very useful to turn our mental design
of the world inside out for the things in the world [those operated from
the inside] that work backwards!    
 
That includes learning to study things that explode into existence and
get somewhere with it, which one might do to avoid joining the things
that explode into existence, get nowhere and vanish.    It's just
fascinating that the well regulated design of civilization is modeled on
the classic form of the latter.  
 
Another benefit is that when you take a more realistic point of view [of
different things having inside and outside control], and accept the
interesting and useful task of steering through them, the truth suddenly
becomes much easier to see.   It's a small miracle, that you tend to
think (speaking metaphorically) of turning on the windshield washers and
opening the vent, instead of drawing pictures in the fog on the
windshield and blaming the endless squealing and crashing on anything
but yourself...
 

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