tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731110002629447939.post388914441527464025..comments2024-02-23T04:22:21.827-05:00Comments on Who Is Virginia?: Playing in SandJames Pannabeckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198245621604488008noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731110002629447939.post-28186667559074912452012-08-28T08:43:27.482-04:002012-08-28T08:43:27.482-04:00Hi don Juan, great to hear from you! Thanks for me...Hi don Juan, great to hear from you! Thanks for mentioning some of the terms I didn't use -- reductionist, holistic, self-organized criticality. Maybe I should read some metaphysics.James Pannabeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198245621604488008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731110002629447939.post-87772603648517212432012-08-27T23:00:26.067-04:002012-08-27T23:00:26.067-04:00Hey James! Forgot about your blog until I saw the ...Hey James! Forgot about your blog until I saw the link from Karen's. Wanted to say that the rice-pile experiments and "self-organized criticality" are some concepts I've encountered in my research. I'm also getting interested in holistic/system-wide approaches, although they're not well-developed yet. I'm thinking about these things in the context of meandering rivers, where we understand to a good degree the local mechanisms that (probably) cause a river to meander but (these processes) can't account for reachwide characteristics and behavior. There seems to be some sized trend in geomorphic sciences to think holistically, but it's difficult to reconcile with reductionism--the scientist's bread and butter. I would say (with my nonexistent expertise) that we're exhausting the utility of reductionist thinking, and that to take the next step we'll need to think completely differently. Easier said than done, though! Keep up the blogging; I'll be reading.don Juanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11553215745145446123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731110002629447939.post-4755005281595015332012-08-27T22:59:17.956-04:002012-08-27T22:59:17.956-04:00Hey James! Forgot about your blog until I saw the ...Hey James! Forgot about your blog until I saw the link from Karen's. Wanted to say that the rice-pile experiments and "self-organized criticality" are some concepts I've encountered in my research. I'm also getting interested in holistic/system-wide approaches, although they're not well-developed yet. I'm thinking about these things in the context of meandering rivers, where we understand to a good degree the local mechanisms that (probably) cause a river to meander but (these processes) can't account for reachwide characteristics and behavior. There seems to be some sized trend in geomorphic sciences to think holistically, but it's difficult to reconcile with reductionism--the scientist's bread and butter. I would say (with my nonexistent expertise) that we're exhausting the utility of reductionist thinking, and that to take the next step we'll need to think completely differently. Easier said than done, though! Keep up the blogging; I'll be reading.don Juanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11553215745145446123noreply@blogger.com