Re-patterning Civilization
21/10/2010 in Category M, Systems
Nested Self-organizing Water Systems
John Fox BE RPEQ
engineer, integral water systems
Unless a person believes that there is a Great Organizer out there, organizing everything in detail, it is rational to accept that the universe is a system of nested self-organizing systems.
At any point in physical reality there is a balance of influences, in many dimensions, at many scales, which determine events and conditions. An organism in an ecosystem, for example, uses its senses and capacities to respond to and operate within its surroundings as they exist from instant to instant, including influences which constrain its actions or even destroy it; its actions are influenced and resourced by, but not organised by, the systems within which it is nested.
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A boy was playing up in the geography class. The teacher sent him to the back of the room with a map of the world cut into small pieces for him to reassemble – a disciplinary jigsaw. The teacher was astonished when only a few minutes later he came back with the whole map. ‘How did you do it?’ she asked. .....