evolving myth

Comparing Coherence in a Complex Age

What Community and History Conclude Sacks , Johnson , and Gould all establish a model and mode of thinking in their respective essays related to logic in a complex system . Johnson 's essay seems to project the best presentation of coherence , as he uses language that can be better understood to individuals across differing disciplines . Similarly , he uses examples that can better be related to society as a whole whereas the other authors use more scientific jargon and distant examples . To put this into perspective , Gould reveals the

br speculative nature of his model , for instance he says , somehow I prefer the excitement of wondering and cogitation--not to mention the power inherent in acting upon things that can be changed--to the certainty of distant dissolution (11 . Therefore , he is both arguing for his position and attempting to persuade the audience to grasp concepts that are not as easily coherent as Johnson 's . This can be said of the idea of predetermination in complex brain systems that Sacks suggests , as well . Sacks spends much of his time in persuading readers rather than engaging them in a individuals refute the idea of evolution or argue the dominance of nurture vs . nature , making these two articles more argumentative and persuasive . Johnson uses already documented scenarios in nature irrefutable , making his model the most effective , as well as the most easily readable to persons not just in the field of "hard science " as the other two , but social science and other important disciplines Johnson 's creative usage , therefore can create a better dialogue among many members of academia Johnson 's model suggests scenarios , in which , the relation of complex moving parts in systems can be paralleled with a queen bee and colony and compares this with other systems , such as a busy city or internet system . He states that we know now that systems like ant colonies don 't have real leaders , that the very idea of an ant queen ' is misleading . But the desire to find pacemakers in such systems has always been powerful-in both the group behavior of the social insects and in the collective human behavior that creates a human city (251 This analysis of the need for humans to find a coherent set of predetermined structure with a leader is most convincing , while the two others attempt to expand on a leading ' idea that governs behavior in animals and humans alike . Sacks , for example , uses the idea of an overall governing system of self-taught reactions to sensory systems At this level , one can no longer say of one 's mental landscapes what is visual , what is auditory , what is image , what is language , what is intellectual , what is emotional - they are all fused together and imbued with our own individual perspectives and values (59 . In this way all senses are said to be governed by the individual and their learned behavior , which seems to be over-simplistic . Johnson does reveal that intelligence must be a part of self-organizing...