D P Dash writes in LO29889:
> I would like to present an answer to the questions raised by Chris, from a
> 'co-ordination science' perspective. It postulates the following steps in
> a large class of developmental processes:
> Steps in a developmental process:
> (the bracketed terms indicate a similar notion, but in a different idiom)
> i. an uncoordinated beginning (moment-to-moment living)
> ii. introduction of a co-ordinating frame (addition of a narrative or
> script)
> iii. improvement of co-ordination (enrichment of living, through shared
> experience)
> iv. gradual rise of new uncoordinated elements (exceptions, uncertainties,
> and failures burden the narrative)
> v. co-ordination overload (the narrative breaks off)
> vi. introduction of a new co-ordinating frame (addition of a new narrative
> or script)
> vii. go to step iv (history repeats)
> This kind of process seems to be almost generic. It seems so general that
> it appears to subsume substantial developments within science, art,
> language, social and natural history, and many other aspects of culture.
I like it. I'd also like to reformulate it a bit, to make more explicit the
connection with At's idea of the rhythm between digestive and bifurcative
learning:
i. an uncoordinated beginning (moment-to-moment living)
ii. introduction of a co-ordinating frame (addition of a narrative or
script)
iii. improvement of co-ordination (enrichment of living, through shared
experience)
iv. gradual rise of new uncoordinated elements (exceptions,
uncertainties,
and failures burden the narrative)
v. return to step iii, as long as incremental improvement can resolve the
new elements with the old (enrichment of the narrative)
vi. co-ordination overload (the narrative breaks off)
vii. the frame loses its integrity; go back to step i (search for a new
narrative)
I suspect that if you looked across the history of a revolution in
science, art, language, social or natural history, etc., you'd see
subgroups in various stages of the process. (Take a look at
www.culturalcreatives.org/Library/docs/NewPoliticalCompass.pdf and see if
you think it describes an example.)
--Don Dwiggins "Solvitur Ambulando" d.l.dwiggins@computer.org
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