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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #13: Dancing With
Systems |
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Systems Thinking
(from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Ecology (from online encyclopedia) |
| Complexity
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Biology (from online encyclopedia) |
| Living
Systems Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Evolutionary
Algorithms (overview from Sandia National Lab) |
| "Dancing
With Systems", article by Donella Meadows |
| The
Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (from The Dance of
Change, by Peter Senge, etal) |
| Systems
Thinking -- An Operational Perspective of the Universe |
| The
Systems Thinker Newsletter |
| Systems
Thinking (from Thinking.net) |
| The
MIT Integrated Global System Model |
| System
Dynamics Example (illustrating a six step approach) |
| Complexity
Digest ("networking the complexity community") |
| Links
to Systems-Oriented Thinking Websites |
| A
Primer on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning |
| Applied
Systems Thinking (a look at thinking tools from a systems view) |
| System
Dynamics: A Learning & Problem Solving Approach to Development Policy,
by Khalid Saeed |
| Feedback,
by Piotr Golec ( from Economics Web Institute) |
| Dynamical
Systems (from online encyclopedia) |
| Emergence
/ Emergent Properties (from online encyclopedia) |
| Environmental
Impact Assessment (from online encyclopedia) |
| 12
Leverage Points to Intervene in a System (from online encyclopedia,
reports on Donella Meadows' work) |
| The
Fifth Discipline (from online encyclopedia about Peter Senge's work) |
| A
Summary of the Principles of Hierarchy Theory (hierarchy theory is
"a dialect of general systems theory") |
| Hidden
Order, by John Holland (1995 book about "how
adaptation builds complexity" preview at Google Books) |
| Introduction
to Evolutionary Computing, by A. Eiben and J. Smith (read
excerpts of 2003 book at Google Books) |
| Ackoff
Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches |
| International
Society for the Systems Sciences |
| Global
Vision: Communicating Sustainability (about cybernetics pioneer
Gregory Bateson and cybernetic wisdom) |
| The
Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle with Lucy Shapiro (June
15 2009 UCTV program) |
| "Quantum
Entanglement in Photosynthesis" by Mohan Sarovar, etal
(2009 paper re: a many body quantum system) |
| Building
the Brain: From Simplicity to Complexity with Nick Spitzer (2005 UCTV
program) |
| The
Lifebox, The Seashell and the Soul by Rudy Rucker (read excerpts of
2006 book at Google Books) |
| Information
Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, by Hubert Yockey (preview
of 2005 book at Google Books) |
| "Information
is the Difference Between Life and Matter," by Gert Korthof (explains
ideas of Hubert Yockey) |
|
Central Nervous System for the Earth
Project -- Hewlett-Packard (2009 press release about this project)
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| A
New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram (2003 UCTV program about science
of complexity) |
| From
Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning ed. Niels Henrik
(review of this 2003 book) |
| "Is
"Nonreductive Physicalism" An Oxymoron?" by Nancey Murphy
(paper: downward causation ==>neurobiology) |
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"Downward
Causation: An Example Involving Human Reproductive & Neuroendocrine
Systems",
by S. Cook |
| "The
Art of Simplexity," by Jeffrey Kluger (excerpt from his Simplexity
book, in Time June 23, 2008) |
| "Restricted
Complexity, General Complexity," by Edgar Morin (2005
paper) |
|
Bowen Family
Systems Theory (applies systems thinking to describe and understand
family interactions) |
| Deep
Ethology: Levels of Organization ("Deep Ethology begins with a
behavioral pattern and seeks insight as to its causes and
consequences") |
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The
Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently--And
Why, by Richard Nisbett
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| quotes
from systems thinkers |