Originally Posted By: Revlgking
Next, it seems to me, what we the people need to do is some serious thinking about the best way to go about handling these challenges. Then we need to take action and search for the best solutions we can find to our political, social and economic problems, locally and globally.

Any thoughts?


I've just been struck by the realization that all emergent systems have a lot of commonalities.
Life, economics, climate, etc.:
All evolve, are constrained by simple laws or rules, are vulnerable to invasion, adapt in various ways, are composed of a population of species (each of which is also an emergent system?).

re: last parenthetical remark:
It's sort of a fractal composition; with emergent systems combining to create new levels of emergent systems, and systems from those new levels combining to create newer levels of emergent systems, ad infinitum.

In this way, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Massive Hedge Funds can be seen as new, invasive species in the economic niche of markets.

googled: "characteristics of emergent systems"

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http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/sustainability_emergent.htm
What if sustainability is an emergent property?
What if we were to view sustainable societies and economies as emergent systems; how would this change our understanding of our goals and the transitional path or paths?

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Managing Multimedia Semantics - Google Books Resultby Uma Srinivasan, Surya Nepal - 2005 - Multimedia systems - 409 pages
Several characteristics of emergent systems are demonstrated in the ant colony metaphor:
interaction, synthesis and self-organization. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1591405696...

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http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:vxv2S88QNTEJ:centerforcongregations.org/files/folders/600/download.aspx+%22characteristics+of+emergent+systems%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
THE EMERGENT CHURCH
Characteristics of emergent systems
by Kester Brewin

Open–change from within triggered by the environment
Adaptable–radical reliance on our local communities to survive
Learning–sensing what is going on around it and processing this information intelligently to make changes
Distributed knowledge–not top down, centralized knowledge and power
Servant leadership–complexity theory provides us with a model of leadership that has very little power

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https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/bitstream/1826/847/2/Linda%20Hadfield%20PhD%20Thesis%201997.pdf
EMERGENT TECHNO-ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENACRANFIELD UNIVERSITY by Linda Hadfield PhD THESIS: 1992-1997

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http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/737/737-032/archives/introductions.php
Web Design and Technologies (4004-737) ....BLOG

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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/emergentpedagogy.html
Emergent Pedagogy:
Learning to Enjoy the Uncontrollable and Make it Productive: A Conversation in (and on) Process
Among Doug Blank (Computer Science), Kim Cassidy (Pyschology), Anne Dalke (English, Feminist and Gender Studies), Paul Grobstein (Biology, Center for Science in Society) (Bryn Mawr College) and K-12 Teachers in the Philadelphia Public School System.

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http://www.neuroquantology.com/JOURNAL/index.php/nq/article/view/51/49
Emergence and Organization Towards a Taxonomy of Organizing Relations
by Stephen Jones

NeuroQuantology 2004 |Issue 3|Page 219-236
Abstract
There are effectively two classes of explanations for how we come to be conscious, particularly in the sense of having a "mental world" or apprehending and comprehending phenomenal experience of both the material world in which we are present, and the worlds of our imagination. These, of course, are the physicalistic explanations in which consciousness somehow is a product of the brain's activity in the physical world, and the mentalistic (usually dualist) explanations in which some non-physical "stuff" carries our mental worlds and phenomenal experiences. Ultimately, even if the mental stuff hypothesis is proven to be the case, we will still have to produce an explanation for how there can be a causally efficacious connection between that mental stuff and the physical world.

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Wow, there's a journal I've never heard of before!
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But adaptive management of systems needs to be factored in... and this other stuff too, can/should all be applied to economics.
...or words to that effect. Sorry, ...rushed.

smile ~samwik