In 2004, a large Midwest hospital was losing money, patients, employees, and physicians. A business consultant was hired to engage key employees in a process to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. The improvement was negligible after the first year, so a 3-man consultancy was added in 2005 to engage all employees in an educational process with the same mission. The author was th...

This paper describes a framework by which creative systems can intentionally exhibit transformational creativity. Intentions are derived from surprising events in a process based on specific curiosity. We argue that autonomy of intent is achieved when a creative system directs its generative processes based on knowledge learnt from within its creative domain, and develop a framework to elaborat...

Scope and semimodal verbs: two approaches In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semimodal (and modal) verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs. One important question is: why can semimodal verbs (and modal verbs in epistemic use) not have perfect and future tense forms? Taking among other things Reichenbach’s tense system as a starting point I try t...

We prove that there is a full and faithful nerve functor defined on the category 2-Cat lax of 2-categories and (normal) lax 2-functors. This functor extends the usual notion of nerve of a category and it coincides on objects with the so-called geometric nerve of a 2-category or of a 2-groupoid. We also show that (normal) lax 2-natural transformations produce homotopies of a special kind, and th...