Title: light in the darkness
Product review: Rob Ulanowicz's approach to nature's complex systems is both highly sophisticated and built, layer upon layer on rather simple, mathematical models. He then looks for how to account for what's missing. As honest as scientists generally are, it's really rare for one to build the value of his theory on it's ability to show you the meaning of what's not there. What's really special is that this very unassuming approach opens the door to accounting for natural system behaviors with causation developing from the inside, very casually evaporating, almost without mention, the deterministic assumption of modern science (which they assure us would be proved if only we knew everything). That assumption has long stood for a belief that we can and should control everything and been a barrier to perceiving that the main task on earth is learning how to cooperate with other living things. Great for Eco-201, maybe for changing the world.
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