Glass Beads and Complex Problems

Thursday, August 12, 2004


For the record...

For the record, this blog is a continuation of the blog of the same name to be found (currently) on my old HipBone site:

http://home.earthlink.net/~hipbone/blog.html

The complex problems I'll be blogging mostly have to do with religious violence.

The glass beads reference is to the idea of the Glass Bead Game in Hermann Hesse's novel, Magister Ludi. I am interested in the application of some ideas drawn from Hesse's Game to the visual representation (mapping) of complex problems, and am developing an analytic style based on a minimum of two data-points in conjunction, in which symmteries and asymmetries are particularly fruitful indicators...

See also my DoubleQuotes blog at http://www.beadgaming.com/doublequotes.html

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