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Emerging systems display what animates their growth if we pay attention. They capture energy and resources to multiply their starting designs. That burst of growth in an emerging system may either just fail by itself or adapt to keep going as it collides with one new context after another and its limits. If those encounters trigger the right response, the new design will follow the ubiquitous “S” curve kind of growth path and adaptation ending in perfected designs with an enduring climax. As humanity pushes our world to its greatest designs, we are making ever more hasty, short-lived, and disorderly designs, i.e., utter chaos. | Emerging systems display what animates their growth if we pay attention. They capture energy and resources to multiply their starting designs. That burst of growth in an emerging system may either just fail by itself or adapt to keep going as it collides with one new context after another and its limits. If those encounters trigger the right response, the new design will follow the ubiquitous “S” curve kind of growth path and adaptation ending in perfected designs with an enduring climax. As humanity pushes our world to its greatest designs, we are making ever more hasty, short-lived, and disorderly designs, i.e., utter chaos. | ||
[[File:GrowthSysIntegral.jpg|thumb|A guide to the sequence of tipping points and transformations to look for in system formation]] | |||
Growth is an organizational, not numerical, process that begins with a “germination event” as contextual factors couple and start to reproduce. It is sometimes noticeable, like when a new game, project, or friendship takes off, but they are always implied where there’s evidence of regular proportional change: growth. | Growth is an organizational, not numerical, process that begins with a “germination event” as contextual factors couple and start to reproduce. It is sometimes noticeable, like when a new game, project, or friendship takes off, but they are always implied where there’s evidence of regular proportional change: growth. | ||
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Jessie's research and consulting practice is HDS Natural Systems Design Science at: 'synapse9.com/sighals' Her main expertise is in building a context of awareness of the world in which someone's concerns are found and put in context. That involves reading "book zero" (the context without interpretation) and noticing emerging patterns and gaps as opportunities or concerns. For design work, the intent is to provide facilities for someone else's creative use and reading of the potentials of the context. Living systems both love and hate surprises, want things they can't have, and to have fun and be satisfied with trying. For science, it's identifying typical patterns of natural system designs, behaviors, and interactions that help others find and respond to those of | Jessie's research and consulting practice is HDS Natural Systems Design Science at: 'synapse9.com/sighals' Her main expertise is in building a context of awareness of the world in which someone's concerns are found and put in context. That involves reading "book zero" (the context without interpretation) and noticing emerging patterns and gaps as opportunities or concerns. For design work, the intent is to provide facilities for someone else's creative use and reading of the potentials of the context. Living systems both love and hate surprises, want things they can't have, and to have fun and be satisfied with trying. For science, it's identifying typical patterns of natural system designs, behaviors, and interactions that help others find and respond to those of interest in their time and place. | ||
Above all, responding to the chaos of our world's place and time calls for us to "recover enough of our most ancient skills and understandings, still deep within us." Language is one of those ever-present places where the deepest of ancient human knowledge is often hidden in plain sight. It's the words that refer to observable common subjects, things, and experiences that date back thousands of years and come with a package of accumulated cultural perspective and wisdom. | Above all, responding to the chaos of our world's place and time calls for us to "recover enough of our most ancient skills and understandings, still deep within us." Language is one of those ever-present places where the deepest of ancient human knowledge is often hidden in plain sight. It's the words that refer to observable common subjects, things, and experiences that date back thousands of years and come with a package of accumulated cultural perspective and wisdom. | ||