Evolving Systems

Interesting conversation with Bharath last week, one based on a shared interest in the "unconscious view of thinking" and exploring some of its implications with regard to the relation between the professional and the personal, the "intellectual" and the "spiritual."

Gary Snyder begins a poem called “What Happened Here Before”:

— 300,000,000—
First a sea: soft sands, muds, and marls
— loading, compressing, heating, crumpling,
crushing, recrystallizing, infiltrating,
several times lifted and submerged,
intruding molten granite magma
deep-cooled and speckling,
gold quartz fills the cracks…

(and continues, quite a few stanzas later…)

—40,000—
And human people came with basket hats and nets
winter-houses and underground
yew bows painted green,
feasts and dances for the boys and girls

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

In Depth Analysis

Paul Grobstein
9 June 2009
(with thanks to the Evolving Systems core group for ideas and to Laura Cyckowski for graphics assistance)

Several different ideas talked about during the first meeting of the Evolving Systems core group are brought together in the image to the right.

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Starting Positions

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Background