Re: [xmca] activity (was concepts)

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Systems theory is not my scene, but isn't there an important sense in 
which our nervous system is a "closed system"? I mean neurons only 
interacts with other neurons. Not an isolated system of course, because 
there is energy input and output, but "closed" in the sense of physics. 
That always seemed to me a strong argument for cultural psychology.

Andy

White, Phillip wrote:
> Michael, your wrote:
>
> "So by closed system I guess I mean that all the players are already there in the system, and while they change based on the ways they interact with each other and there is a dynamism to the interaction, it does not promote or welcome, or particularly know what to do with links out to unexpected information sources."
>
> i think that Bateson would assert that all living systems are open systems - and that no human system could be a closed system -   in fact, the only closed system i can think of would be one that's human-made - such as an electrical system, etc.  
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> phillip
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> Phillip White, PhD
> University of Colorado Denver
> School of Education
> phillip.white@ucdenver.edu
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