http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/ Systems thinkers applying the integration lens to science and theology/spirituality en-us 2005-05-25T23:16:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#022233 Ok, here are a few notes about feedback. The concept of feedback involves family members who monitor the "transformational processes and output to see if they are within acceptable standards." So, they way that parents monitor their children's behavior is... Define Terms gschache 2005-05-25T23:16:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#022217 These are rather disconnected notes on change taken from my readings for the semester. Use them as you dare!... Define Terms mkellehe 2005-05-25T18:04:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021991 We're talking 2nd Law of Thermodynamics here: Take a closed, non-living system; this is a VERY important part of this. It must be closed (without energy exchange) and non-living. Okay, now let everything in the system move toward equilibrium.... Define Terms mkellehe 2005-05-22T16:54:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021990 This will be interesting, considering that this is what YOU concentrated on! Hegel defined dialectics as "Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis". Good but WAY too simple!... Define Terms mkellehe 2005-05-22T16:45:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021989 This will be interesting, considering that this is what YOU concentrated on! Hegel defined dialectics as "Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis". Good but WAY too simple!... Define Terms mkellehe 2005-05-22T16:45:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/#021987 Isomorphism means equivalence of form. It means that the elements and relationships of one system can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with the elements and relationships of another system.... mkellehe 2005-05-22T16:34:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021924 Humberto Maturana (along with Francisco Varela) originated this idea because he was dissatisfied with the way living systems were being defined and he wanted to tease out the "living machines" which contribute to the invariance involved in natural selection. The... Define Terms gschache 2005-05-19T15:35:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021923 Gregg, I always feel like such a slacker when I read your postings. But here are mine anyway, without your depth:... Define Terms mkellehe 2005-05-19T13:39:15-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_define_terms.html#021910 Equifinality comes from the realm of nonlinear causation. Rather than thinking in linear fashion that one cause leads to one effect, nonlinear causation considers that an infinite number of causes may be at work to cause an effect. This is... Define Terms gschache 2005-05-19T11:03:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_dialectics.html#020079 Jim, I am finally "really" reading your paper on "The Geometry of Family Theory." I have a question about your fundamental dialectical principle that involves "the relationship between a system and its environment, through which each is consituted as both... Dialectics gschache 2005-04-19T16:32:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_dialectics.html#019083 I'm fascinated by something I found in Weeks' article that proposes an "intersystems" type of "metatheoretical approach to integrating individual and systemic formulations of human development. He quotes Klaus Riegel (1973) who invested himself in "dialectical operations and cognitive development"... Dialectics gschache 2005-04-04T23:47:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_ecosystemic_epistemology.html#019027 I had an experience over the weekend that illustrates how hard it is to integrate systemic concepts into an overall view of life. I was describing to a friend how the field of medicine interrupted centuries of intuitive parenting with... Ecosystemic epistemology gschache 2005-04-04T12:29:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_ecology.html#018942 James Lovelock who write "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth" and "The Ages of Gaia" believes that science can demonstrate that the Earth is a living organism. At least, it maintains basically the same conditions in temperature, atmosphere,... Ecology gschache 2005-04-02T16:40:38-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_ecosystemic_epistemology.html#018902 The Hopi Family Therapist and the Aristotelian Parents by Paul F. Dell One issue that Dell tackles in comparing the worldview of Hopi Indians with that of white western family therapists is that of language. Dell reacts to Benjamin Worf’s... Ecosystemic epistemology gschache 2005-04-01T16:05:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gschache/SystemicFoundations/cat_applying_systems_concepts_to_theoretical_frameworks.html#018425 Before deconstructing prevailing social interaction theories and theories about individual behavior, Hanson suggests an approach that bases research on starting with “wholes” or relational patterns. This is in contrast to traditional approaches of making truth claims about human reality that... Applying Systems concepts to Theoretical Frameworks gschache 2005-03-26T10:38:08-06:00