Re: Free-will

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

JohnK,

It was a surprise to me too! I'll try to look into the manuscript portion
and see if I can find any more about it. I don't recall there being much. It
is truly a tragedy that he never had the chance to complete this work. About
the manuscript he says:
"If I can make significant progress on this manuscript, I think it will be a
major contribution to the general philosophy of science. The design of the
work is very ambitious because, among other things, it lays a firm
foundation for the theory of systems in their broadest sense." [RC p. 6]

That is a pretty bold claim for anyone to make, and, based on his books,
Rosen was not one to make grand claims without having the formal arguments
and details to back it up. So, I imagine even the many bits of the formal
program that are in the manuscript are but a fraction of what he had layed
out in his mind.

Regards,
Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of John
> Kineman
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:10 PM
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: Free-will
>
>
> Tim, this is a surprising development! I would not have thought #3 to be
> distinct from anticipatory systems.
>
> JK
>
> Tim Gwinn wrote:
>
> >
> >P.S. - I should add that included in the unpublished manuscript
> "Rosennean
> >Complexity" that Judith has for sale, is a letter dated
> 10/7/1998 (making it
> >later than any of his published books) in which RR refers to
> three (!) types
> >of systems: 1) natural systems, 2) formal systems, and 3)
> volitional systems
> >("the category of systems involving judgement or volition" p. 7). These
> >comments are in the context of his describing his development of - what
> >seems to me to be - a very profound generalized mapping model for _any_
> >system.
> >
> >
> >