Mini Symposium 2025 Nov 13 - James N (Jamie) Rose
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Using General System modeling to analyze the Health of a human social organization - SGSR/ISSS: ISSS 2025 …. is a dieing organization. (What are you going to do about it?
Abstract
And then .. in simple English words every child and youth and adult and mature human can understand:
"YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE WORLD in a very special way!!!! ....
Imagine a "tree". you have to be able to understand and describe it as a thriving organism in nature -- separate and within -- the natural world around it. But ALSO! .. as a painter would, as a carpenter would -- who understands the timber can be used to build a house, or chair or bowl or spoon or wooden le.g. An engineer can see the "wood" as a lever.or wheel or boat. ALSO; as a farmer sees it -- some "trees" produce food,, some are used to hold sol and moisture in the ground,. A farm worker knows "tree" as where to rest from summer heat, or shelter from wind or rain. A BIRD and insects --know "tree" as where to safe- build a nest. A squirrel where to forma hole and nest -inside-. also -- you must KNOW a tree for all its living functions - "breathing" leaves, 'water drinking roots --xylem and floem bringing nutrients to all branches. Flowers and reproduction parts. SEEDS .. as .. FUTURE POTENTIAL .. in metabolic processes interacting with the sun and seasons on an ever progressing planet moving through space.. and the moon .. which stabilizes tides and seasons of the earth's tilt and rotation.
A 'tree' .. is not one thing. You can . carve your name into it an historical marker.. or guide someone following your path through the woods. And you can mash it ito pulp and make PAPER ... for human culture and information preservation.
You have to think about ALL these aspects and more ... (.. your name goes here..) .. if you hope to understand Life and this World."
THIS is what your colleague was EDUCATED from earliest memories .. to engage and think about this world.
"General Systems" were words he never heard or used. Yet he was educated from day-one to BE a mind at home in the encyclopaedia of existence. It is not a profession. or career compared to others. Or "academic" pigeon hole. It was an embedded WAY OF CONCEIVING AND CONSIDERING .. to be deeply explored and coordinated and UNIFORMLY MADE SENSE OF. and to communicate about in in-depth ways.
Today's CONVERSATION ENGAGEMENT with you .. expects YOU to rise to this emcompassing way of thinking .. to talk about ISSS and it's "future".
It started within AAAS in 1956 with several THOUSAND high academics joining in the first organized years. It is now a poor remnant of about ~150 aged geriatric "residuals". It is a DYING organization.
YOU need to ACT NOW to make changes to save it .. or stop the tragedy and sing its death dirge.
Short Bio
Your General Systems colleague Jamie Rose came to General Systems completely differently from your own entre' into the subject. You all were exposed to it or guided into it during your high school (normal education) or college education years.
Jamie instead was raised to be an essential "concepts of the universe" thinker from his earliest childhood years. His values of conceptual thinking were guided by ideas Albert Einstein shared with his parents during Einstein's early years at Princeton "Institute for Advance Studies" circa. 1938-39 during personal gatherings at Einstein's home at private parties.
As a youngster between the ages of 5-10 years old, after dinner 'conversation games" included the 1950's popular game "20 questions" -- how to hone inquiries into sharp careful questions to solve challenging unknowns in LESS THAN "20 questions".
Jamie was always reminded -- there are THREE kinds of people: 1) those who talk about people. 2) those who talk about things. 3) those who talk about IDEAS. With the best human being those who discuss and explore and consider ... ideas.
At 6-7-8 years old, his parent's challenged Jamie to think on and really try to answer some of human science-philosophy's most exotic high intellect questions:
The "easiest" was .. 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" But after that "basic" query ... came the next: "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to"hear" it .. is there any 'sound'?"
Which led to the extraordinary extreme conundrum: "What happens if~when an IRRESISTIBLE force ... meets in IMMOVABLE object?"
{... consider the nature and attributes of the full expansive universe .. as a 6-7-8 year old .. and carry the concerns with you through your entire life ...}