Research Reference Pages

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This is the place to keep organized pages of links for different research topics, to edit over and over by topic rather than post comments on.

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References and links to Pat Thompson's Writings and discussions of it.

AccidentalTheorist-Ch9,10.pdf
AccidentalTheorist-HH_SystemDiagrams.pdf
AccidentalTheorist-Intro&Prologue.pdf
FatalAbstr-p85.pdf
FatalAbstractions-Intro&Prologue.pdf
InBedWithProcrustes-Intro&Prologue.pdf
LifePlans-Ch14SystemsThinking.pdf - Pat's "Life Plans" is a great little introduction to systems thinking, generally, with just that little difference making it "Hestian".

That difference is the modeling of natural systems as *living cultures* which arrange their own "near environments" to be their homes on earth (establishing their own "niches") is noticeably absent from the discussions of mainstream systems sciences.
It's also one of the tell-tale-signs of the strong connections between Pat's thinking about how natural systems behave, as individuals organized to act a whole, that links her work so clearly and strongly to mine, a physics based approach for discovering the bursts of energy use that help locate and study the emerging self-organization that characterizes system transformations in natural systems. My approach to studying nature as living cultures prompts many of the very same questions as her work raises.

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References to developed thinking on the nature of home and home cultures

in various fields

Louis Kahn's "idea of the room"
Christopher Alexander's "pattern language" for self-organizing social space in town and urban settings.
"The fit with Alexander – and clearer escape from our traps" - Links between the Alexander's and the Natural Systems pattern languages.