Posted by
Phil Henshaw-2 on
Jun 02, 2006; 1:42am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/this-Wednesday-Lecture-May-31-12-30p-Carlos-Gershenson-A-General-Methodology-for-Designing-Self-Orgas-tp521880p521899.html
Well, yes, that's the advantage of creative homeostatic systems like the
global economy. The question, though, is whether pushing such a system
to grow exponentially toward critical response time failure is dangerous
or not. I think homeostasis is quite dangerous in collapse, and it
could easily precipitate a systemic failure in which virtually all
systems fail at once. Historically the world system has been kind of
loose and with system instability we suffered a bit, changed our model
and kept on growing. The question that tests our practical knowledge
of nature is whether we can do that indefinitely. I think we have not
yet looked to see what growth is for in nature, just assumed it was some
kind of divine right or something, and that our remarkable ignorance is
hiding big surprises.
I do systems design too, designs for government competence,
self-correcting health care, etc. There's most certainly a need. Are
your models designs for adaptive business systems or something?
Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Gershenson [mailto:cgershen at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Carlos Gershenson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:19 PM
> To: sy at synapse9.com; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
> Coffee Group
> Cc: stephen.guerin at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ** this Wednesday** Lecture May 31
> 12:30p - Carlos Gershenson: A General Methodology for
> Designing Self-Organizing Systems
>
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> > "Do these methods address the response time limitations for human
> > responses to change?"
>
> The answer is yes. Self-organizing systems are precisely useful for
> that, since elements of the system try to find solutions to a
> problem
> by themselves, without human intervention, so they help reduce human-
> induced delays. If there's a change in the environment, the elements
> reconfigure to find the solution for the current situation.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carlos Gershenson...
> Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
>
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/>
> ?Tendencies tend to change...?
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