[Assam] From Tehelka

[Chan Mahanta]

Good to hear from you after a very long time Deep. Hope things are 
going well for you and the family.

>A complex system can rarely be orderly --

*** Yes, I can believe that. But that is not to be construed as something that
ought not to be sought--the orderliness that is. It is a work in 
progress, will always be. A system that is devised in such a way that 
it can be improved, as opposed to something that is caught in a 
time-warp, that cannot change or evolve, is counter-productive to the 
well-being of an evolving society. That is the difference.

A system that can respond to society's needs may not have  be ORDERLY 
either. It could be chaotic, but still respond to society's needs. 
But if the system is incapable of responding to society's needs, then 
it MUST be changed.

Take care.

c-da





At 9:49 PM -0600 2/28/06, Medhi, Deep wrote:
>
>>	If you look up Webster's English Dictionary, it will tell you
>that
>>  a'system' is 'an orderly, interconnected, complex arrangement of
>parts'.
>
>C'da,
>
>A complex system can rarely be orderly -- orderly and complex are
>*nearly* oxymoron:-)
>
>Taking a cue from "my" world of computer science, a system almost always
>has some faults that can lead to race conditions. This can be possible
>for social systems as well.
>
>I checked dictionary.com . Only one out of eight definitions use the
>term 'orderly'
>
>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=system
>
>Back to work ....
>
>	-- Deep
>
>http://www.sce.umkc.edu/~dmedhi