11\u00a0 bar falls 30.22\u00a0 2mph NE\u00a0 windchill 7\u00a0\u00a0 Samhain<\/p>\n
Last Quarter Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n
Here is a new term (new to me) that has become important in my thinking:\u00a0 emergence.\u00a0 It comes from a discipline that fascinates me, but about which I know very little:\u00a0 complexity theory.\u00a0 Emergence describes those characteristics of life forms, human history and human economics that arise from the fact of life itself.\u00a0\u00a0 Emergent realities like value, meaning and history, according to this line of thought, do not break the laws of physics, but cannot be predicted by application of those same laws.<\/p>\n
Inability to predict the next action of a man or woman, the working of the markets or the next events in\u00a0 human history creates a peculiar circumstance.\u00a0 It means that though they break no natural laws these emergent realities do not conform to either. \u00a0 Again, according to this line of thought, this lack of predictability has two sources:\u00a0 agency and creativity.<\/p>\n
Agency is the ability to act.\u00a0 Combined with consciousness in human beings this leads to creativity.\u00a0 Creativity and agency make for the rich, diverse reality that is human life.<\/p>\n
I’m not going to go too far with this right now because I’m just beginning to absorb it. I want to understand how it relates to my work on a Ge-ology and read a critique or two before I get overly excited, but it seems like an important idea to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
11\u00a0 bar falls 30.22\u00a0 2mph NE\u00a0 windchill 7\u00a0\u00a0 Samhain Last Quarter Moon of Long Nights Here is a new term (new to me) that has become important in my thinking:\u00a0 emergence.\u00a0 It comes from a discipline that fascinates me, but about which I know very little:\u00a0 complexity theory.\u00a0 Emergence describes those characteristics of life forms, … Continue reading Emergence<\/span>