[Biomedical-cybernetics] The #6 reason for submitting an abstract for the 26th Annual SCTPLS International Conference

[Guastello, Stephen]

The #6 reason for submitting an abstract for this year’s conference is…

ABSOLUTE certainty that you will learn about UNCERTAINTY


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS

 To present at the

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
26th Annual International Conference
29-31 JULY, 2016
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT USA
 
Submissions deadline is April 30, 2016

Celebrating 25 years!

Submit your abstract(s) electronically at 

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/cfp

We don’t want you to miss out on our fabulous

Banquet Keynote Address on July 30, Saturday

THE TEMPORAL-SPACE MYSTERIES OF A COMPLEX SYSTEM:

PERFORMANCE OF AN INSTANT IN TIME

By Gus Koehler


A Glimpse of the Theory: Multiple time-space dimensions shape the ongoing dynamic performance that is a complex system.  Complex systems from an everyday perspective contain the whole range of who we are: as performance at all scales; as embodied (cellular, etc.); as human shaping of somatic flow (how of the forming of action); as awareness-mind-consciousness (perception), cognitive, artistic poetic, moral, etc. Let’s go where few have gone before; let’s speculate and theorize about how analytical concepts like “time-ecology,, “heterochrony,” and “temporal signature” might reveal and in their instant operation even shape such a performance.

First, we are time; time is uniquely known only by living systems. The Time that we can only directly know, are, and shape is instant-lived relational time embedded in five temporal realities. A complex system is a time-ecology of performed relational instants across these temporalities, each temporality having its own unique causality and linked to biotemporal time by various fabrications like scientific instruments, human and computer analysis, dance, poetry, and all the other elements of the poetic, of the human. Time is a fundamentally biological performance; to Be is to be time even lazily suddenly changing to urgently.

Complex systems exhibit a propensity to unfold or grow in a particular way shaped by how these temporalities come together as instants. The performance of any node or link or their acting together as network is the convergence of past-present-future perspectives (Temporal signature) at an instant. This tentative direction is not strictly predictable from an understanding of causal relationships, but it can be partially intuited if the full range of reason is available, listened to, and “seen.”

Examples of Applications: Most of my presentation will speculate on how these ideas apply to some of the areas that I have thought about: disasters, computer simulations, the Feigenbaum diagram, public policy making, space, virtual reality, traffic and communication technologies, and battlefields.

Speculations on the Implications of Temporal Category Errors for Policy: Might the current analysis of climate change and its accompanying policy recommendations result from a category error in which things belonging to the realm of the eootemporal (clock time urgency) are incorporated, presented and analyzed as though they are naturally part of the biotemporal (biological urgency)? For example, a running computer program of a urinary system cannot experience an “urgency to urinate.”  To say so is to commit a categorical error; urgency is a biotemporal aspect of living time. What are the implications for the analysis of the time-ecology of climate change and policy if this is so?

My hope is to provide you with at least the possibilities of a new perspective from which to view your research and personal world.

Now for ways you and your work can make a contribution…   

We invite scholars and practitioners interested in working together to turn one of the best-kept secrets on the planet into THE WAY to research nonlinear dynamical systems and to develop practice-approaches that will serve the world in areas such as healthcare, education/academia, as well as our social and physical environment. Presentations and conversations will explore practice applications and enhance knowledge of chaos theory, fractals, complex systems and related topics. Over the years, the annual conferences of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences have inspired and supported people from many disciplines to become leaders in theoretical, empirical and practice applications. Steadily, we are building a knowledge base that provides an integrated approach to life sciences, health and wellness, global peace and environmental sustainability.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACTS

Length

·       Abstracts are between 150-250 words for posters, individual papers, short workshops and other alternative formats. Clear connections to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals or related concepts are important. Include each speaker or author’s organizational affiliation and/or contact information.
·       Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be longer at up to 500 words. For symposia, it is important to include the content of EACH speaker's contribution. The typical format for a symposium is for all speakers to give presentations with time following for discussion. The typical format for a panel discussion is inquiry-based and dialogic. Please communicate the theme of your research or practice-based applications of nonlinear science within the title of your abstract.
 Content

·       For experimental work, you will want the background, aims and framework, mode of inquiry, methods and samples, outcomes, conclusions and implications to be clear and explicit.
·       For panel discussions, you will want to provide a brief overview of and introduction to the topic, relevant background of panelists and sample questions that will be used to prompt your panel member discussion.
·       For symposia or workshops, you will want to describe your current research, the techniques you used for conducting your research and how it applies to nonlinear behavioral, social and/or life science. Please emphasize the skills and new learning that attendees can expect to acquire.
·       For all abstracts: Assist the reader in understanding your connection to nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, fractals and/or related concepts. Please highlight the overall value added to your area of practice (e.g., introduces a new method, information, perspective, issue; calls into question, confirms present knowledge or clarifies understanding). 
·       Choose a category: The web-submission form allows you to select from the following: 1) Empirical (e.g., presentation of empirical results of a study), 2) Theoretical (e.g., empirically testable theoretical development), 3) Applied (e.g., social, cultural, organizational and/or inter-relational dynamics; business, product and/or marketing development; practice-based applications involving clinical interventions), 4) Quantitative (e.g., computational or statistical modeling), 5) Qualitative (e.g., non-quantitative analysis of empirical data), 6) Philosophical or artistic (e.g., epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics, or audio-visual demonstrations).
 
Additional Information

·        Each person may submit up to two presentations as first author and serve as co-author on additional work submitted by others. 
·       All presenters are invited to prepare your papers for possible publication in the Society’s peer reviewed research journal Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.NDPLS uses American Psychological Association (APA) style. Click JOURNAL on the SCTPLS web site to access Instructions for Authors. NDPLS accepts manuscripts all through the year, but please use October 1, 2016 as the target date for submitting to allow us to make up a special Conference Presentations issue. 
 
REGISTRATION for the conference and workshops is now open at

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2016/


 
 
 

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