Form & Emergence
Once again, this issue is somewhat different to either the usual
arbitrary collection of papers in what is best described as a Standard
Issue, or the set of closely related contributions that demands their
own dedicated Special Issue. There has also a development of our
Standard form into what might be called a Magazine Issue, and yet here
we are again with yet another different offering. For the papers
included here are of a special type: they are corrections or amplifying
updates of previously published papers, and rather than just referring
to their antecedents , it is clear that such modifications will always
be necessary. So the emphasis in this Issue is put upon this absolutely
essential aspect of the real development of ideas, and departs from the
usual incrementalist way of most such papers in the usual Professional
Journals.
You may wonder what the differences involved may be, but it is in the Philosophy of such “improving” contributions, for they are not so much mere corrections as conceptual developments and hence are unified in the clear emergent aspect involved. In a sense we are hoping that the basic standpoint behind all the contributions to SHAPE, and their developments are emphasized as the necessary way forwards in today’s Science. We, as always, focus upon the actual transitional trjectories, which are involved in such developments. We do not believe in the cumulative, incrementalist repository of individual additive contributions, but the ever deeper revelation of the creative processes that are essential in real understanding. In a sense we do not emphasize the delivery of Forms, as do the deliverers of equations, but the study of the Forms of Form and their Emergences. Enjoy!
You may wonder what the differences involved may be, but it is in the Philosophy of such “improving” contributions, for they are not so much mere corrections as conceptual developments and hence are unified in the clear emergent aspect involved. In a sense we are hoping that the basic standpoint behind all the contributions to SHAPE, and their developments are emphasized as the necessary way forwards in today’s Science. We, as always, focus upon the actual transitional trjectories, which are involved in such developments. We do not believe in the cumulative, incrementalist repository of individual additive contributions, but the ever deeper revelation of the creative processes that are essential in real understanding. In a sense we do not emphasize the delivery of Forms, as do the deliverers of equations, but the study of the Forms of Form and their Emergences. Enjoy!
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