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so are individuals.<BR>
I have worked with sponsors that were quite keen on having the Television Network record the circle and distribute the stuff happening there to the world .<BR>
Others would take great pains in keeping the distribution of the documentation closely controlled (every copy accounted for, names of the recipients written on the copy).<BR>
Others again didnt really much care about the event as long as they could have a glossy report to distribute afterwards.<BR>
And there were further variations.<BR>
My understanding is that "healthy" living systems share encoded information with their environment to "improve" the relationship "between" them and their environment and do that selectively and differently at each point in time.<BR>
If you translate "healthy system" with "complex adaptive system" the idea of adaptation (in other words: it depends) comes thru more clearly.<BR>
Or: there are no rules but there are complex processes mingled often in mysterious ways....with the result of life continuing pretty splendidly or as some say "muddling through".<BR>
If the core purpose of a system is, lets say high learning and high play, which sort of fits the bill for me for the oslist, the criteria for "sharing information" that best support that core principle are of interest.<BR>
For me such things as "real life experiences", "telling it the way it is", "feelings", "conflicts", "confusion", "chaos"....more of that is perhaps supportive for high learning and high play.<BR>
Whenever a member of the list speaks from their heart, offering both feelings and facts, for instance, the temperature and the process of communication get up there..."improving" the relationship between the subsystems and raising my interest, for instance, in diving into the stew.<BR>
Greetings from Berlin where spring is arriving and my kids have announced this to be the day to start the barbecue season which prompted shopping for all the ingredients, dusting the garden furniture...grand interactions...and soon grand food<BR>
mmp<BR>
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<B>From:</B> chris weaver<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:49:33 -0500<BR>
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Re: [OSLIST] oslist core purpose & the exchange of "ideas" one more thought:<BR>
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not having a digital video camera linked to the web focused on the circle of my os events is, as i stated, about purpose...but i am thinking that it is also about <I>the givens of how a living system cares for itself.</I> to my friends on the list who know more than i about theories of living systems: do healthy living systems share their encoded information indiscriminately in the environment?<BR>
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