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Topic: A system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.

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OP - September 21, 2014, 11:08 AM

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fopportunities.hartford.gov%2FShared%2520Documents%2FThinking_in_systems.docx&ei=UrAeVNmMOuvd7QabkoHgCw&usg=AFQjCNFwkr6vuA05G3qaB7ypWEra4Hu3ww&bvm=bv.75775273,d.ZGU

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Does anyone know if systems theory has been to applied to religions, for example Islam? Maybe systems do cause their own behaviours.....

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #1 - September 21, 2014, 11:27 AM

For example people with steady heart beats are at more risk of strokes, variety, variation, change is very important.

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The overall conclusion of the study is that poor early (7 days) neurological outcome in patients with ischemic stroke is associated with lower nonlinear entropy-based metrics, whereas late (90 days) outcome can be differentiated by linear parameters of spectral HRV. This suggests that parameters of poor early outcome are associated with reduced complexity, as inherent in reduced information (entropy) contained in the time course of change of heart rate (as quantified by interbeat RR interval). That is, a lower complexity is associated with an elevated disease state and vulnerability to disturbances

http://journals.lww.com/jhypertension/Fulltext/2013/08000/Heart_rate_variability_and_stroke__strange.5.aspx

In a similar way, I think too rule following highly structured societies are not good for us!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #2 - September 21, 2014, 11:53 AM

An example of an open system might be sailing a yacht in reasonably windy weather, continually making slight corrections.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #3 - September 21, 2014, 09:29 PM

Interesting idea.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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