Hi Rog, Rich and folks
On 19 Apr 99, at 23:17, RISKYBIZ9@aol.com wrote:
> Cities, Cultures and Theories can't adjust to DQ? This statement is
> messy because two of the highest levels are usually connected
> with humans, but to state that only humans can perceive or
> respond to DQ goes against the spirit of his own levels. Cities and
> cultures do dynamically respond and change their patterns, and it
> isn't necessarily a person or group that does it. The pattern can be
> unplanned by humans, but still emerge due to dynamic interaction
> within the system. Now is this "free will"? Perhaps not in classic
> SOM terms, but in the MOQ I would say it is.
But a city or a culture does not exist without the people that inhabit
them - in an anthropcentric sense. The social patterns of the city or
the culture exert an influence upon their members which in turn
affects the patterns. Similarly with thoughts, principles and theories.
They require a means by which to manifest themselves. The patterns
themselves are static but they change and evolve by interaction and
emergence. The means by which they interact and emerge is the
network of humans which they (partially) create and influence.
Cities and cultures may respond dynamically but do they _perceive_
Dynamic Quality? The patterns don't perceive - that's a property of
what they create.
I agree that that statement is a touch messy but I would say that the
general idea is fairly clear. 'Free will' is still associated with the
members of the city or the culture and not with the patterns.
Comments?
Horse? :)
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