[Kb-complexity] New paper on the emergence and growth of knowledge and diversity in hierarchically complex living systems (including organizations)

["HALL Bill" <Bill.Hall@Tenix.com>]

People may be interested in a paper I recently prepared for a recent
workshop that I think deals centrally with issues of our new Complexity
Science & Organisations (CSO) SIG. I have posted it to my personal web
page for criticism.

Although the work has been fermenting in my consciousness since last
year, the draft was pulled together in less than three weeks and is
still rough - however, with minor exceptions, and together my published
work dealing specifically with knowledge in organizations (see
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/PapersandPresentations.htm
), I think it provides a fairly complete theoretical framework for
understanding the roles and types of knowledge in complex organized
systems.

Given that I still have to bring the material together in publishable
form, I would welcome any critical feedback regarding any arguments that
fail to convince or that may be unintelligible. I will be happy to
discuss the contents via the mailing list or off line.

Hall, W.P. [DRAFT] Emergence and growth of knowledge and diversity in
hierarchically complex living systems - a sketch. Workshop "Selection,
Self-Organization and Diversity CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science
and ARC Complex Open Systems Network, Katoomba, NSW, Australia 17-18 May
2006. [MS Word, 607 KB] -
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/DocumentKMOrgTheoryPapers/
Hall2006EmergenceGrowthKnowledgeDiversity(NetPaper).doc

I have also posted the presentation relating to the paper that
summarizes its content and a bit of background on its genesis -
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/DocumentKMOrgTheoryPapers/
Hall2006CSSWorkshopPresent(Net1).pps.

Regards,

Bill

William P. (Bill) Hall, PhD
Documentation & KM Systems Analyst
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Evolutionary Biology of Species and Organizations
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/

Visiting Faculty Associate
University of Technology Sydney

Senior Fellow
Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society
History and Philosophy of Science
University of Melbourne
email: whall@unimelb.edu.au
URL: http://www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au/
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