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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 Charles Peirce, a good starting place is: ARISBE -- the Peirce gateway

• For more on Robert Rosen, two good starting places are:
  • T. Gwinn's Rosen Gateway, "Robert Rosen Complexity and Life"
  • BioTheory -- An online journal dedicated to coninuing Rosennean explorations of complexity
    • My personal favorite for a general introduction to Rosen's ideas is "The Devils Advocate written by Judith Rosen, and on the BioTheory site under the section "Judith Rosen"

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 Some material is being transferred to MatsunoResearchProgram

• 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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