Notes
[Notebook: DB 62 Interpretation]
[Sunday 21 October 2007 - Saturday 27 October 2007]
[page 24]
Sunday 21 October 2007
One way to kill animals is to let their blood out. We have known this for a long time but only began to understand why 400 years ago when Harvey showed that the blood circulated through the body through arteries and veins. William Harvey - Wikipedia
We now know a lot more. Blood is the major physical transport system in the body. There are others, and of course there s a vast network of systems for transporting information from one part of our bodies to another.
Blood and Water (to NY Times)
Killer ap: the best way to do it.
Purifying water is a thermodynamic matter: distillation / osmosis.
Controlling a car.
[page 25]
Acting against clear and present danger versus looking deep into the system to see where the dangers are coming from and devise redesign and/or incorporation of an error correcting mechanism to eliminate the source of danger at the earliest possible moment. Error, like grace, can grow.
All the old concepts n another language, ie world = god; profit = grace; money = capital = treasure (in heaven).
Religion is the technology of peace; it is the guide to action, seeking better practice in all fields of human activity.
Monday 22 October 2007
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Thursday 25 October 2007
The spatial geography of conflict Lim et al Science 317:1540. Lim
Complexity and coupling Liu et al Science 317:1513. Liu
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Friday 26 October 2007
Saturday 27 October 2007
Further reading
Papers
| Lim, May, Richard Metzier, Yaneer Bar-Yam, "Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence", Science, 317, 5844, 14 September 2007, page 1540-1544. 'We identify a process of gloabl pattern formation that causes regions to differentiate by culture. Violence arises at boundaries between regions that are not sufficiently well defined. We model cultural differentiation as a separation of groups whose members prefer similar neighbours, with a characteristic group size at which violence occurs. Application of this model to the area of the former Yugoslavia and to India accurately predicts the locations of reported conflict. This model also points to improved mixing or boundary clarification as mechanisms for promoting peace.' . back |
| Liu, Jianquo, et al, "Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Sysems", Science, 317, 5844, 14 September 2007, page 1513-1516. 'Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and comlex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organisational unity. They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, and surprises. Furthermore, past coulings have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities.'. back |
Links
| William Harvey - Wikipedia William Harvey - Wikipedia, the fre encyclopedia 'William Harvey (April 1, 1578 - June 3, 1657) was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. Although Spanish physician Michael Servetus discovered circulation a quarter century before Harvey was born, all but three copies of his manuscript Christianismi Restitutio were destroyed and as a result, the secrets of circulation were lost until Harvey rediscovered them nearly a century later.; back |
