Re: Hierarchies. Again!
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Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:14:03 -0400
Boris;
argues for hierarchies to be confined to levels which stand in a command
relation to each other, and not broadly to any an d all level
structures/systems. This is wise.
The emergent levels which arise from variation and natural or delibrate
selection; evolution are something quite other than an hierachy.
There may be a sort of food chain order, or there may not be, but that is
not a command hierarchy necessarily or even usually.
In my view understanding emergent levels of comunicontrol=cybersystemic
systems is likely to yield far more in the way of creative innovation
thant dwelling on command hierarchies. McCulloch's concept of "hetrarchies"
is also worth more development though I think.
Gary Boyd Concordia Montreal.