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Welcome. This page provides a continually updated lists of links to materials created in connection with the Evolving Systems project. Feel free to browse and comment in the associated online forums. For more information about the project itself, please see the project home page and the overview.

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Literature Across Deep Time

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 11:29am

Evolving Systems

January, 2010 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

Literature Across Deep Time

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Evolving humanity: an abstract and its evolution

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 4:05pm

I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about conversations associated with the Evolving System project, and their implications for individual and collective stories of selves (mine included) and of what it is to be human.  In mid-December, I started trying to crystallize that thinking in the forum of an abstract to be submitted for a possible talk at the 2010 Metanexus meeting.  The abstract in turn led to further conversations, one of which is excerpted below as an illustration of the interpersonal and social character of individual story evolution.  For a different but intersecting view of the evolution of the abstract, see Ev

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Evolving humanity: towards a "third way"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 12:26pm

Rationality and social wisdom/cohesion clearly play important roles in inquiry, in education, and in human affairs generally.  But there are problems with relying on either alone, and with the two in combination as well.

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Cause and affect: intentionality as first mover?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 11:48am

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Cause and Affect: Intentionality as First Mover?

Doug Blank
  3 December 2009


The issue:

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Evolving Systems: November 2009 Core Group Meeting

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 2:56pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

November, 2009 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

 

Dealing with uncertainty: from the I Ching to heaven?

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The Baldwin Effect: Intentionality in Biological Evolution?

Submitted by Greg Davis on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 5:26pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Organic Evolution (aka the "Baldwin Effect"): Intentionality in Evolution?

Greg Davis
  19 November 2009


The issue:

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The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 6:39pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality

Wil Franklin
5 November 2009

(to be continued 12 November)

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Evolving Systems: October 2009 Core Group Meeting

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:56am

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

October 27, 2009 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

The I Ching and the Emergence of Form

Background (Ben, excerpted from a longer .pdf):

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"Forms are Converes of Meaning"

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 2:32pm

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Deep Time, Deep Space, Deep Play: Writing (to) the Future

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 2:07pm

Deep Time, Deep Space, Deep Play:
Writing (to) the Future

Anne Dalke, for the Open Conversations
on Evolving Systems
October 22, 2009

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Evolving Systems: World Wide Conversation

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 5:08pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems: World Wide Conversation

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Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 4:54pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009


The issue:

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Evolving Systems: Open Conversations Home Page

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 6:18pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

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Reconceiving Inquiry: Againstness and Non-Foundationalism

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 12:55pm

Paul Grobstein
Evolving Systems Core Group
22 September 2009
Notes for session
(see here for background, session summary and continuing conversation)

"being" is an unstable state, it is provisional and experimental ... Mark Lord

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Evolving Systems: September 2009 Core Group Meeting

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 5:37pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

September 22, 2009 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

Working Without Mirrors, Glassy Essences, and Indubitability:
From the Subjective/Personal to the Objective/Inter-Personal and Back Again

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Evolving Systems: August 2009 Core Group Meeting

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 12:24pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

August 18, 2009 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

Background (Paul's version):

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From homes and perches to the cosmos, and back again

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 3:38pm

Alice and Paul work together in several venues, including the Evolving Systems project and a manuscript in progress integrating biological and social perspectives on education.   

Over lunch one day, Alice offered  that she (and other human beings?) appreciates, even needs,  "perches" in addition to "homes" as resources for living the way she likes/hopes to live.

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Evolving Systems and Education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 1:16pm

Teaching Shamanism:
A Conversation About Education, the Unconscious and Stories,
Community Dynamics, and Life

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The Taoist Story Teller and Culture: Do We Still Need Truth, Reality, and/or God?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 5:32pm

The 2009 Metanexus meeting, plane rides to/from Phoenix reading Raymond Smullyan's The Tao is Silent and Ann Harrington's The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine, conversations last week with Bharath Vallabha (see Truth and Power in Education), Alice Lesnick, and Ben Olshin, and discussions in our K-12 summer institutes  all seem to bear on the above question(s), and suggest an interesting approach to them.

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Relections on openness and structure in education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 5:43pm

The following was written by Bharath Vallabha, following a session on emergent pedagogy in a summer session for K-12 teachers in which Bharath participated.  It is relevant a well to current discussions of the Evolving Systems group about its own organization and, more generally, to issues of human community organization generally. 

 

I. Three Aims in Education

Here are three aims for a classroom:

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