nari
29-08-2005, 11:03 AM
This title is a quote from Roger Lewis, author of Complexity.
I would like to take it further, and quote a few passages out of John Gribbin's book Deep Simplicity:
Gribbin is talking about systems - all sorts of systems from the Solar System to dripping taps - quote:
"....what really mattered was that some systems...are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there si feedback, so that what a system does, affects its own behaviour. It seeemed too good to be true - too simple to be true. So I asked the cleverest person I know, Jum Lovelock, if I was on the right lines. Was it really true, I asked, that all this business of chaos and complexity is based on two simple ideas - the sensitivity of a system to its starting conditions, and feedback? Yes, he replied, that's all there is to it."
Gribben also mentions John Feynman, physicist supremo, who indicates that:
"...the complicated behaviour of the world we see around us - even the living world - is merely 'surface complexity arising out of deep simplicity'."
How does this relate to physiotherapy? I tend to think we are a bit lost in complexity of management, forgetting the starting condition/s, and focusing on the complex issues arising from a small difference initially.
What do SSers think???
Nari
I would like to take it further, and quote a few passages out of John Gribbin's book Deep Simplicity:
Gribbin is talking about systems - all sorts of systems from the Solar System to dripping taps - quote:
"....what really mattered was that some systems...are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there si feedback, so that what a system does, affects its own behaviour. It seeemed too good to be true - too simple to be true. So I asked the cleverest person I know, Jum Lovelock, if I was on the right lines. Was it really true, I asked, that all this business of chaos and complexity is based on two simple ideas - the sensitivity of a system to its starting conditions, and feedback? Yes, he replied, that's all there is to it."
Gribben also mentions John Feynman, physicist supremo, who indicates that:
"...the complicated behaviour of the world we see around us - even the living world - is merely 'surface complexity arising out of deep simplicity'."
How does this relate to physiotherapy? I tend to think we are a bit lost in complexity of management, forgetting the starting condition/s, and focusing on the complex issues arising from a small difference initially.
What do SSers think???
Nari