Re: New member: Chris Miles

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:00:18 +0100

>I suppose that may work in general could be characterised by
>the conviction that narrative structures need to be both firmly
>slotted into General Systems and also critically ranged against
>it (in the sense, evolved from Iser, that fictional narrative
>serves as a balance to prevailing systems, often helping to
>evolve them or destroy them). Because of this stance, I find
>the evolutionary emphasis of the PCP and meta-transition theory
>most interesting. I would like to contribute work in the area
>of memetics, evolutionary forms in text and narrative, and that
>in general tries to answer the demands of Klir's fourth level
>of generalisation -- the gathering of the 'Arts' within the web
>of systems theory.

If you are interested in the connection between General Systems and the
Arts, you might like to check the program of the "Einstein meets Magritte"
conference (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/Einmagan.html), of which we were
co-organizers.

>I am willing to do proof-reading and editing work on the
>hypertext documents at PCP (I gather that you are in need of
>such help) alongside original contributions.

Since we at present have no good editing set-up as yet (all Web browsers I
have seen until now are very awkward in editing HTML via forms), the
simplest way to proceed would be the following: suppose you want to suggest
a number of corrections of an existing Web page, you then download the
source (HTML) of the page, edit that source, add a note about what you
changed and why, and send it to me via email. I can then insert the new
text (if I agree with the changes) in the Web.

The same applies to new nodes, though there the procedure would be more
involved, since you would have to specify the place in the hierarchy where
the node should come, and fill in all the necessary fields and links. The
node should also be accepted by the editorial board, so it might be better
to first send a short proposal of which node you would like to write to me
before starting with the job, so that we could give you some feedback on
whether it would fit well in the PCP Web.

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Dr. Francis Heylighen, Systems Researcher fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6292525; Fax +32-2-6292489; http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html