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The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
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The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality
Wil Franklin
5 November 2009
(to be continued 12 November)
Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations
Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency
Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009
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The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
The Evolving Systems project is an exploration of the idea that form, meaning, and esthetics are interdependent emergent characteristics of an ongoing evolutionary process originally lacking any plan, intention, of purpose. And of the implications of such an idea for both intellectual and practical life.
Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence
The world as we perceive it is neither fully disorganized (Figure 1), beyond our ability to identify any overall pattern in it, nor fully organized, describable by us in terms of some single simple pattern (Figure 2). Instead, we are faced with, and find ourselves trying to make sense of, a world that most typically shows mixes of pattern and disorganization at different scales (Figures 3, 4, 5).
