tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356093984428839526.post155189289883506000..comments2019-03-03T12:28:46.572-08:00Comments on COMPLEXITY METRIC: CausalismRandall Lee Reetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15879202191444326979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356093984428839526.post-69204440217166015232011-08-22T15:56:02.735-07:002011-08-22T15:56:02.735-07:00Max, I have not (or can't remember if I have) ...Max, I have not (or can't remember if I have) read Ulanowicz. My initial reaction is that he is too rhetorical for my intellectual taste. Though I must admit that his positions seem to parallel my own, at least in so far as emotions and politics are concerned. I am constantly worried by the all too human capacity and tendency towards emotional blindness. Some thoughts and some categories of thinking are far easier for we humans than are others. We must, as a result, identify these blind spots and these grand attractors and swear vigilance in the fight to react more rationally in those areas of thinking for which the mind wants instead the opposite. My own emotions pull me towards foundational scientific research and to push away from market motivations. These attitudes are pure in the long term and wide vantage but they don't serve me well in the more pedestrian aspects of thinking that promote healthy community building. Should the whole world think like I do, society would grind to a halt and we would starve to death in the cold (intellectual flags held high!). I never know how to think about academic success. Does a professor learn to work within the bounds dictated by the interests of his students and co-investigators? Or does a person become a professor because they are already of the type or kind that conforms to the intellectual market around them? Are they great leaders or success-seeking marketeers? I am I not a professor because I am too honest, or because I am intellectually inferior?Randall Lee Reetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15879202191444326979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356093984428839526.post-54618915023919682782011-08-22T12:56:20.994-07:002011-08-22T12:56:20.994-07:00Have you read any works of Ulanowicz? I think that...Have you read any works of Ulanowicz? I think that your "causalist" approach fits well with concepts in relational biology and process ecology...<br /><br />Nice blog!Max Meisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446054000580615140noreply@blogger.com