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The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
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Chance: its meaning and significance

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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:

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:

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)

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems: World Wide Conversation

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:

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

The Evolving Systems project is an exploration of  the idea that form, meaning, and esthetics are interdependent emergent characteristics of an ongoing evolutionary process originally lacking any plan, intention, of purpose.  And of the implications of such an idea for both intellectual and practical life.