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From Emergence
Stewart Gebbie
I have had a long standing interest in understanding change within complex systems. In particular, how to tigger emergent change in systems that exhibit systemic problems.
For a number of years I have been trying to follow my interests in a number of areas of my life, both personal and professional. However, I have been battling to characterise the common thread that seemed to exist in my views and interests. Ultimately I saw that, in some simple way, many of the concepts where related to understanding "change". That is, the constructive ongoing change that enables continuous progress of the given system.
"So, for me the issue is one of change, and I think I have come to the realisation of what it is that I want to engage in at the moment, and that is in all aspects of change: tools of change, how systems change, how to direct that change. The reason that I am interested in this is that I believe that my life can be much better and I believe that the world can be a much better place. So, by studying change, because in both cases we have a complex system that is difficult change, I believe I am adding value to both my life and opening up the possibility to adding value to that of the world around me." -- Stewart Gebbie 2007.
Woven into this, is my personal world view that each of us is capable of creating value and meaning in our individual lives. Furthermore, that humanity is capable of much more positive behaviour than it currently displays.
Tying all of this together, I realised that it is my belief that the path to a better world can be uncovered by understanding more about our society and how it can change.
Thus, while this field of study is of great interest to me in and of itself, the aspect that really excites me is the potential for applying the understanding uncovered, back into the world at large. In this way driving positive change -- creative progress.
For more about me, see static home page, Gethos personal page, or you can read my blog.
For various wacky and half-baked ideas about emergence please see Scratch:Stewart.
