Thank your very much for making this available to me. I am in the field
of occupational therapy with concentration in neuroscience and
cognition. I can see how this information will be of the utmost
importance for me.

Presently I am at Creighton University working on a social-cognitive
model to hopefully facilitate the understanding and evaluation of our
clients and ultimately to develop better cognitive tools for our
clinical practitioners.

I agree that we need a sound philosophical base in order to better
understand how medical services can be provided in a way that are
attuned with the concepts in neurodynamics and with the intuitions,
thoughts, and qualia by which our clients experience their daily lives.

Thank you...I look forward to your correspondence.

Ivelisse Lazzarini, OTD, OTR/L
Creighton University Medical Center

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 12:53  PM, Jon Bennett wrote:

> I would be happy to scan and upload the article on War and Strategic
> thinking for you Ivy, (ilazz) but it will be next week before I can
> get to it, have my kids this weekend.
>
> Would someone elaborate on the social movement aspect.
>
> My entire understanding of complexity grows out of understanding
> society as an integrated whole. All of the basic ideas of the
> complexity paradigm are expressed in the whole of culture...all areas
> of thought and cultural expression....including art, music,
> literature, and architecture.
>
> And of course this was true in the 17th century when the ideas of what
> was then called the "New Science" spread throughout the entire > culture.
> Isn't this what a pardigm is in the largest since....a completely new
> way of seeing and understanding "everything".
>
> Viewed in this sense you can look for the fundamental ideas- or
> archetypes-that are expressed throughout the whole of society.
> And understanig of one area, increases your understanding of another.
>
> Each paradigm also has different ideas of space, time and causality,
> because the fundamental ideas behind thesed concepts...the archetypes
> have shifted. My thinking on this has been greatly influenced by
> Pitirim Sorokin and his monumental four volume work, "Social and
> Cultural Dynamics"
>
> This is why an understanding of the philosophy of science is essential
> to understanding anything and everything else in the culture....for
> this is where the fundamentals are formed. The word "physis"
> itself-form which we get physics-means that unchanging essence, or
> ulitmate aspect of reality....and this is what worldviews are made of.
>
>
Ivy