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Developmental Systems: Systems whose patterns of change with time, change with time. Try not to turn your head right around, grokking the concept. Special Case: Dynamical Systems. Let's nickname such systems
DevSys and try and come up with a list of their properties and behaviours
My first attempt at coming up with a working definition of Developmental Systems is in the essay
ProbeSystemTrace
ProbeSystemTrace had two historical inspirations, the works of american philosopher,
Charles Peirce, and the mathematician/biologist
Robert Rosen. Both individuals were "system builders", in that they not only asked probing questions about scientific issues of the day, but developed consistent logical systems that served as their probes of the world around them. The full measure of Charles Peirce's works is only coming to light a century after his death. Hopefully the full measure of Rosen's works will come to light much sooner.
- For more on Robert Rosen, two good starting places are:
For work of Jack Maze online go to:
MazeResearchProgram
- Jack Maze's work focusses on empirical investigations of developmental systems in botany.
For work of Stan Salthe online go to:
SaltheResearchProgram
- Stan Salthe's work focusses on the natural philosophy of developmental systems
For Kali Robson's Online Mss on Developmental Systems go to:
More than the Sum of Our Parts -- Exploring Evolution, Biological Emergence, Ontogeny and Phylogeny
- Kali Robson's work is an attempt to provide an introduction to the general reader of the notion of "emergence" and its role in development and evolution.
Link to
Koichiro Matsuno website
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- Koichiro Matsuno's work combines empirical and theoretical investigations into what can be called "the nascent moment" when systems reach a level of complexity that their dynamics are dominated by information flow rather than energetics, and they transition from "physcial system" to "biological system".
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