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The Blueberry Brain Institute's
12th Annual Snowflake Conference
Dynamical Systems Thinking in Science and Society
February 25-27, 2005
The Pueblo at East Campus
Springfield College
Springfield,
MA, USA
This conference has
established a tradition of informality both in style and substance. It is open
to metaphoric as well as formal explorations of systems/holistic thinking to
science, society, and philosophy, not necessarily in that disorder. It is a small
conference and features open discussion.
The Pueblo is a rustic,
pueblo-style building in the woods by a lake in Springfield. It affords walks
and has a kitchen. This is a small conference, usually about 20 people, so we
have plenty of time for longer presentations with lots of discussion. It is
very friendly and casual. We range over rather diverse subjects in philosophy,
education, research, social applications, and theory. We have been blessed by
very bright and innovative participants in the past, and do not doubt the same
for this one. This web site is now complete, but changes daily as we add
participants, titles, abstracts, and commentary. The parts of this site are (1)
this home page (scroll down for list of participants and titles to date), (2) The
Snowflake 2005 Newsletter (link above right) for abstracts and commentary, and
(3) Local Information page on venue and travel information (link at bottom of
this page). There are also links to earlier Winter Conference and Snowflake
Newsletters (links above).
We have Rick Paar to thank
for obtaining this venue, which was selected for its ease of airport access,
its countryside setting, its informal atmosphere, and its low cost. It was
chosen from among several candidate venues ranging from Vermont to Puerto Rico.
The conference self-organizes; the schedule is not set ahead of time.
The conference will start about 9am Friday
the 25th and end mid Sunday the 27th afternoon. For those
arriving Thursday, we will find a restaurant for informal dining and
conversation after gathering at the Howard Johnson, our lodging a couple of
miles away from the Pueblo. There is no registration fee, but we add up the
modest costs, and suggest a voluntary sharing (usually in the $25-$50@) at the
Sunday lunch.
Contact Fred (abraham@sover.net).
Titles |
The Ecology of Education Carlos Torre |
What’s Revolutionary About NDS and/or Complexity Theory? A Discussion Jeffrey Goldstein |
The Developmental Life Span Theory of Erik Erikson: A linear or non-linear dynamical systems model ? Karen Vander Ven |
Applying John
Holland's model to classroom learning Charles Nelson |
Organic
Mathematics or, "What is
the matter with Matter?" |
Beauty & The
Brain - Hidden Dimensions of Well-Being Mark Filippi |
Research on
Class Consciousness: Jennifer Drury |
Aesthetics and
Complex Civic Space |
Change and Time as
it Relates both to the Larger Frank Mosca |
Cyborgs, Cyberspace, Cybersexuality and the |
Chaos and the Dark Night of the Soul: Tobi Zausner |
Evolution of Intuition & Consciousness
Robin Robinson |
Gnostic Mathematical Applications to Financial
Analysis Bob Eldridge |
Art and Existentialism in the Panopticon Judith Nagib |
Graph-theoretic Structure of the Connection Graphs of a Irina Trofimova |
Archetypal Dynamics: The Reality Game Bill Sulis |
Music as a Change Agent within Personal, Cultural and Civic Development' Martin Gardiner |
Applying John Holland's model to classroom learning Charles Nelson |
The Nonlinear Drivers of the Creative Process: Tales from the Trenches of Motion Picture Special Visual Effects George
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Meaning & Perception: A Neuro-occupational View Ivelisse Lazzarini |
Created by fda, November 11, 2004 updated
2/20/05