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Evolving Systems: May/June Core Group Meeting
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
May/June 2009 Core Group Meeting Summaries
and Continuing Discussion

Evolving Systems: In Depth Analysis
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
In Depth Analysis
Paul Grobstein
9 June 2009
(with thanks to the Evolving Systems core group for ideas and to Laura Cyckowski for graphics assistance)
Several different ideas talked about during the first meeting of the Evolving Systems core group are brought together in the image to the right.

Evolving Systems: Home Page
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
The Evolving Systems project is an exploration of the idea that form, meaning, and esthetics are interdependent emergent characteristics of an ongoing evolutionary process originally lacking any plan, intention, of purpose. And of the implications of such an idea for both intellectual and practical life.

Evolving Systems: Starting Positions
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Starting Positions

Evolving Systems: Overview
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
Overview
An inquiry into emergent relationships among randomness and form, meaning, and aesthetics (see Background), with particular attention to