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Re: [xmca] activity (was concepts)
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- From: Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:40:45 +0100
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On 19 April 2011 16:34, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
The analog to digital conversion that is our sensory activity?
Huw
> 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.
>> phillip
>>
>>
>> Phillip White, PhD
>> University of Colorado Denver
>> School of Education
>> phillip.white@ucdenver.edu
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