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Life and Sentience (Was: Our curiosity kills a lot of cats…)

I’ll be teaching a sustainable systems class this Fall and the Univ. of Colorado. I can’t push a particular theory, especially my own, but I can hint at it and I’m hoping through student driven enquiry we can arrive at … Continue reading

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Life and Sentience (Was: Our curiosity kills a lot of cats…)

Hi Glen, I think that’s right, there is a natural separation of functions that has to take place for a system to do its two essential things in complex relation: (1) exist, (2) operate. We also can see in Rosen’s … Continue reading

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Comment on Relational Cosmology

I sent this comment to Johan Masreliez, author of the Scale Expanding Cosmos (also a popular book titled “The Progression of Time”) and in full agreement he is forwarding the comment to other lists. We have found that our cosmological … Continue reading

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SSE Physics and the relationship of consciousness to observation

OK, it is too much for email, but please look at http://69.195.124.95/~nexialor/relational-science That will seem confusing, but there are pages and posts where I try to make it more understandable. Initially it is not intuitive to Western trained minds. I … Continue reading

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SSE Physics and the relationship of consciousness to observation

Just a contribution…. There is technically no way to strictly ‘falsify’ a TOE assumption. It is like saying the explanation of the universe is that everything is constituted from X-beans that can’t be observed and then saying what the rules … Continue reading

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Brief explanation of category theory modification in R-theory

This is an explanation of the modification I made in category theory symbols in R-theory from . Rosen used category theory to loosen up the formalism of cause and effect. Entailments are more general. Then one can decide what kind of … Continue reading

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Another attempt to explain causality in relational theory

I wrote this reply to a colleague on an e-list who was trying to explain “Kineman” idea to another colleague. The concept if amazingly simple once you allow you mind to think in terms of simultaneous realities. In other words, … Continue reading

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Limits of Science

This is a copy of a recent email list comment about the limits of science. Robert Rosen wrote a book about “The limits of the Limits of Science”. These ideas, I believe, would be compatible with his writing First, the … Continue reading

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Relational Science at the International Society for the System Sciences Annual Meeting, July 14-19, 2013, Vietnam

There is a “Relational Science” Special Integration Group of the ISSS which consists of a paper stream. The SIG organizers, John Kineman and Judith Rosen, are unfortunately unable to attend. We are searching for an acting SIG Chair for the … Continue reading

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More on causality: The Vedic connection

I want to report some recent developments in thinking about the four causes of the holon. This is from a new paper just submitted for publication. It is a re-drawing of the holon to apply to ancient worldviews relating concepts … Continue reading

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