The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009

The issue:

Notes Towards Day 10: "Seeing Gender"

Notes Towards Day 9:
Ordering the Chaos of Dreaming

Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

I. coursekeeping
those papers due Fri? reporting in on topic-defining, progress in researching....?
3-pp. paper reporting on current studies done on your health choice:
how are most college students handling the choice you are confronting?
how best to present the information you find?
find three web sources; look @ HOW they present the info (causes? correlations?

Notes Towards Day 9

I. Start by taking three surveys from The Paradox of Choice:
*are you a maximizer or a satisficer? (p.80)
*the regret scale (p.87)
*the subjective happiness scale (p. 196)
can we chart the correlations?

Kristin's Origin Stories

Origins/intersections/categories

Personal/political/intellectual

Heritage: Photo of my great-grandmother in her 90s with her skis behind her, in northern Sweden, above the Arctic Circle—you can see the tradition of physical robustness and survival that I come from.

Notes Towards Day 8 of Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
naming
postings--what WAS the carbon footprint of our field trip??
on using the web to enlarge your paper, but...
being skeptical of what you find!

new writing (papers due @ 5 tomorrow):
any questions? go round and describe topics?

reading for next Tuesday: first part (75 pp.) of
The Paradox of Choice, by Swat pysch prof Barry Schwartz;
popular version of the scientific dilemma we've been chasing this week-->