Jack.
I only could afford a three-minute browse just now, but the material appears to be relevant to what we are doing
and interesting. Have to come back to this. QWhat I read immediately called up two thoughts:
Re economics:
A colleague at Dawson who taughts economics was wont to say that many people know the price of everything and
the value of nothing
Re complexity ytheory:
The introductory line of a physics professor lecturing about the cow: "Imagine a spherical cow."
Henry
Jack Park wrote:
> http://www.calresco.org/lucas/economic.htm
> "Current economic theory reduces all things to one dimension, that of
> monetary value, in fact that seems to be the whole basis of the science.
> Yet value is not in itself a one dimensional concept, we value many things
> that are impossible to classify in such linear monetary terms, air or
> sunlight for example. Complex notions of value require a type of economics
> that is itself complex and multi-dimensional, a value system that goes
> beyond the trade based concept of material exchange and takes into account
> the wider needs of people and planet. We will try to outline such a
> complexity based economics here. "
>
> The paper was found at this web site
> http://www.calresco.org/themes.htm
>
> It strikes me that if one were to imagine a DKR for multidimensional
> economics, one would have to imagine links to other DKRs, such as would
> cover ecosystems, social systems, and so forth. The architecture for such
> an environment, I am finding out, would perhaps be described as a
> Heterarchical Hyperstructure, as described at
> http://www.calresco.org/lucas/philos.htm
> and as may emerge when the heterarchical communities as evidenced in the
> various Wiki implementations, at www.memes.net, in particular
> http://graphs.memes.net, and at Bernard Vatant's www.universimmedia.com
> all begin to link to each other.
>
> http://graphs.memes.net does strike me as the beginnings of a useful DKR,
> and, given the TouchGraph navigation tool, it's beginning to have some of
> the capabilities imagined for eventual implementation in a
> HyperScope. Here, you have navigation, different views, user interaction,
> export to a variety of formats, and so forth.
>
> Already, we are beginning to learn a lot.
> Many thanks to Stephen Danic for setting up this site, to Alex Shapiro for
> linking TouchGraph in, to Bernard Vatant for suggesting something like
> this happen, and to Eric Armstrong for asking the probing questions that
> necessitated this emerging DKR.
>
> Where might this experimental universe go next? I'd be interested to learn
> what it would take to permit memes.net to present views from information
> sources other than that which is appended by users, e.g. legacy information
> sources and so forth. In order to move more deeply into a HyperScope
> implementation, that kind of support would be needed.
>
> Cheers
> Jack
>
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