Enrique Herrscher, ISSS president; Gary Metcalf, conference co-chair
49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Westin Cancun, July 2, 2005
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Introduction by Enrique Herrscher
[Enrique]
A method and a person
[Charles Francois]
20 ideas: if comment on one, will be incomplete, and if on 20, will be confused
Scale description, versus the time description
Ecology as a transdiscipline
Technology changes society constantly
Question: what is education? Transferrence of knowlege, or teaching the art of living/
Thermodynamics: a new angle for me
Stafford Beer: anything we do, changes the situation, thus we must add a permanent cybernetic loop on how the situation is changing
Narrative without a model is dangerous
Terminology
Transdisciplinarity:
Multidisciplinarity
Language