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John Kineman

About John Kineman

Senior Research Scientist (Ph.D.) at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado,

Brief description of how we get the relational holon

This is a brief description of how to reason about formal cause and derive the relational holon, which I sent a colleague.   I’ll give a brief, with a hint at the new stuff: Since Aristotle’s time there has been … Continue reading

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Catalyst

So, are we discussing the definitions of these words “cause” and “influence” or different kinds of causes in which information causes (encoding and decoding) might be better understood publicly as “influence” because of their less singular effect (i.e., uncertain or … Continue reading

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Catalyst

Jack, Although we have different meta views in detail, I basically agree with what Len says here. The distinction is not going to be that clean unless you go to some very fundamental principle that doesn’t always show up in … Continue reading

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Catalyst note

Hi Jack, Yes – thanks for the examples. Indeed they are typically treated as Q2, a dynamical process that influences another dynamical process; but the reason for modeling it as Q3 is just what you said, the case where it … Continue reading

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Criteria for A GST2

What makes it go? Using your notion of X, the tickles come from the context (environment) of X (which may include the supplier of resources to X). If the tickle is accepted by a component in X then System Happens … Continue reading

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Criteria for A GST2

Jack, I think the problem with that is “what does the tickling”. What makes it go. The relational framework is self-motivating; each causal aspect drives the next in a cycle, so it answers the question ‘why’ something happens. In this … Continue reading

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Criteria for A GST2

John,Whew! I will respond to the first two paragraphs now and will have to consider the rest later. Perhaps this first response will make further interchange unnecessary. I do not disagree with relational framework as you represent it. However, a … Continue reading

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Criteria for A GST2

Jack, I’d be interested in this distinction between a system and a configuration of end items. In the relational framework, there are four archetypal ways of pointing to something systemic; four kinds or aspects to reality. These are never separate, … Continue reading

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Criteria for A GST2

Hi Jack, You asked how R-theory would treat the notion of a catalyst. Here’s what occurs to me. The short answer is that a catalyst is formal cause. It is one system providing a context for the existence or regulation … Continue reading

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Derek Cabrera

A note on Derek Cabrera’s Theory of (absolutely) everything. His video on Big Theory of Everything describes a relational holon, DSRP. http://www.cabreraresearch.org/tabs/videos However his labels are different from R-theory and Aristotle’s causes, but they are archetypically the same. The association … Continue reading

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