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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)

Evolving Systems: World Wide Conversation

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems: World Wide Conversation

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

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Evolving Systems: Home Page

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. 

Synesthesia and Perception

Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence

 
Ways of Making Sense of the World:
From Primal Patterns to 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).