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On 19 April 2011 16:34, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > Systems theory is not my scene, but isn't there an important sense in which > our nervous system is a "closed system"? I mean neurons only interacts with > other neurons. Not an isolated system of course, because there is energy > input and output, but "closed" in the sense of physics. That always seemed > to me a strong argument for cultural psychology. > > The analog to digital conversion that is our sensory activity? Huw > Andy > > > White, Phillip wrote: > >> Michael, your wrote: >> >> "So by closed system I guess I mean that all the players are already there >> in the system, and while they change based on the ways they interact with >> each other and there is a dynamism to the interaction, it does not promote >> or welcome, or particularly know what to do with links out to unexpected >> information sources." >> >> i think that Bateson would assert that all living systems are open systems >> - and that no human system could be a closed system - in fact, the only >> closed system i can think of would be one that's human-made - such as an >> electrical system, etc. >> phillip >> >> >> Phillip White, PhD >> University of Colorado Denver >> School of Education >> phillip.white@ucdenver.edu >> ________________________________________ >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: > http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932564744 > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857 > MIA: http://www.marxists.org > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca