Winter Chaos 2006
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13th Annual Snowflake Conference
Dynamical Systems Thinking in Science and Society
February 3-5,
2006
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 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.
This is a small
conference, 16 presentations and a few ‘auditor/participants’ so far this year,
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 can change on any day 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 2006 Newsletter (link above right) for abstracts and commentary, (3)
Welcome address (link above and bottom of page) and (4) recommended readings
(link above). There are also links to earlier Winter Conferences and Snowflake
Newsletters (links above).
We have Karen Vander Ven
to thank for obtaining this venue, which was selected for its ease of airport
access, its comfortable setting, its informal atmosphere, and its low cost.
Karen has wanted for us to meet there for several years. She promises a great
meeting room and good food. Bard Ermentrout, one of the foremost dynamical
systems gurus, and on the Mathematics faculty at the University of Pittsburgh
will participate. Perhaps we can get a chance to view his very advanced
dynamical software. The conference self-organizes; the schedule is not set
ahead of time.
The conference will start about 9am Friday
the 3rd and end mid Sunday the 5th. For those arriving
Thursday, we will gather at a restaurant near the Quality Inn for informal
dining and conversation. There is no registration fee, but we add up the modest
costs, and suggest a voluntary sharing (usually in the $25-$35@; but turned out
to be near $0 this year) at the closing Sunday lunch.
Contact Fred (abraham@sover.net)
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The
Ecology of Education and Our Biological Heritage: Carlos
Torre
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Understanding
Bateson's epistemology such his idea that there are two Tom Malloy |
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The
Mathematical Life Span Karen
Vander Ven |
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Mind is
Fire: Aristotelian Categories, Porphyrean Trees and the |
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Holistic
Model of the Nature of Agreements Mark
Filippi |
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Neural
Incoherence within the Metaphoric Framework of Nonlinear Topology: George
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Reconstructing the Functions & Architecture of
Consciousness: Daniel
W. Miller |
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Cyborgs,
Cyberspace, & Cybersexuality |
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The Power of Play:
Gender Issues in Early Childhood Education Doris Fromberg
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Models
of Hallucination and |
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Chaos,
Jazz, and the Art of Teaching Robert
Faux
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Social Relational Models: Building
Blocks of Classroom Interaction
Charles
P Nelson |
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Evolution and Long-Term Memories in Living Systems Roulette
William Smith |
Why Doing Research
in NL Science is Like and
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Engagement,
Transfer and Learning Martin
Gardiner
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Dynamical Systems, Organizational Change and Organizational
Outcomes:
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Created by fda, November 23, 2005; updated 2/11/06