The bead game is underdevelopment, however part of the function of the game comes from clicking the forward and back links above and from game players sending in Remarks.

Viable Systems

A bead submitted from Paul. October 22,2000

I have struggled for many years to have a capacity for building a virtual discussion on complexity and the collective management of human knowledge. This capacity requires financial and intellectual resources, as well as the good well of scholars.

My efforts in this regards extends back to when I was Director of the Neural Network Research Facility at Georgetown University (1991- 1994). Since 1997, this effort has been in context of the BCN Group Charter (*).

Now is perhaps a time for a new beginning (*) and a new effort.

Peter's note (*) to Bob on theater, shared with me via a reading over the phone, has put the discussion into a practical; some might say pragmatic, perspective.

Bob's reply (*) reaches back into a long-term research relationship that has been revealed in many conversations, and in a number of peer-reviewed journal articles.

But Bob does a bit more, as we all look forward to new work on complexity and knowledge. These are issues that the Einstein Institute (*) and others are interested in and for which the scholarly community may find funding and purpose.

I mention funding here because our community has suffered from both a scarcity of funding as well as from a mainstream scientific and cultural resistance to notions like cross scale entanglement and stratified levels of organization. It may be proper to call for a Manhattan-like Project for Knowledge Sciences (*).

Each of us, I believe, has a basic signature (*). This signiture is who we are in an essential sense. The readers of this text can work to understand, though the words expressed, who each of the bead players are. In this way, the bead players are allowed to express a basic essence.

If scholarship is proper, then this expression is relevant to questions that are in context and are important to the advancement of collective knowledge and awareness.