I'm starting to question the things I thought I knew about complex adaptive systems. I thought the list of rules for the survival of the planet were a short list of simple rules, and now I'm rethinking it. My proposition was to present the Natural Step Model as a way to understand complex adaptive systems. With the Natural Step process, there was focus on the content, not process. The things that you have brought up are sometimes the reasons why I have felt this way in the past.
People come with their own perspectives, and it feels sometimes like people are missing the point.
All those points are valid, but different than the point I was trying to get to. This happens to us as we try to carry these thoughts into the rest of the world. It s difficult, since we are dealing with things that are non-linear, we see not a single questions, but multiple, and any one is an interesting path to take, and some of us see one path more fruitful than the others. Complex System Complex Adaptive System Requires interaction Non-emergent patterns. Does not repeat.