I will try at some point to develop the multi-scale model a bit, but now's
not the right time for me. Meanwhile some features of the abstract version,
with some concrete examples but more for biological systems, are sketched
in some presentations converted, awkwardly, for the website ...
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/webs/wess/ and
.../webs/time/
I have promised a whole article on this for MCA that I hope to complete
sometime this summer, and a more fully worked out version of the
/webs/wess/ website version will be written by the end of February and
probably on the website soon after.
The basic model assumes there are MANY scales, most easily organized by the
characteristic times or rates of the processes that constitute the emergent
properties of each level, but to analyze anything at any level you need to
examine relationships among at least 3 levels, generally one above and one
below the one you are focussing on.
In the fullness of time(s) ... JAY.
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PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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