Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson
The reason I’ve been maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective in my postings to the Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, and Systems Science groups is because each one stresses a distinct but necessary aspect of a systems approach to scientific inquiry. I see much potential to be had in integrating these views of the inquiry process, but it will take a lot more thought and work to fully develop that potential.
The feature that jumps out at me as I scan the discussions on this thread — and I’ve said this before about most of the discussions of systems I’ve seen in these groups — is the static nature of the pictures of systems people are laying out. Whereas, for me, my whole reason for taking up a systems approach to inference, information, inquiry, along with the symbol systems we use to conduct their transactions, is to tease out the shape and flow and dynamics of their transformations.
Inquiry Into Inquiry 