Molly wrote:
>Eric, Mike, et al,
>
>I think complex systems theory works quite well as a metaphor. Of
>course, it doesn't explain human behavior....it provides ways of
>imagining/thinking about relationships, change, emergence. Recursion is
>certainly useful for thinking about what transpires in CHAT, don't you
>think?
yes - as are all theories, wouldn't you say? that they work as
metaphors. rather like, say, the visual organizer of Engestrom's comples
triangle - Vygotsky's simple triangle - actually a large V - all signs
of metaphors.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
* *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
university of colorado at denver
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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