Sent to GMU 27 September 2007. The hard copy of this document is a set of Slide Notes plus a 13 page printout of 72 PowerPoint slides, which John had completed ahead of time and had in readiness for his invited Bertalanffy lecture. "The Road Less Traveled" was NOT the official Bertalanffy Lecture. It could probably be called the "Unofficial Bertalanffy Lecture" because it is the longest and best prepared of several documents Warfield worked on for his China trip in Year 2002. Warfield had been asked to give the prestigious Bertalanffy Lecture at the International Society for Systems Sciences Annual Meeting to be held in Shanghai in August 2002. He had been working for months on a single one hour long plenary session talk which was customary for this Lecture. But by the end of July he had to revise his plenary speech to fit a 20 minute time slot, The ISSS (International Society for Systems Sciences) conference was being sponsored jointly in 2002 with the Chinese Systems Society. After reaching Shanghai Warfield discovered that the Chinese Systems Society didn't really want a long Bertalanffy lecture, they just wanted a short speech presented amidst a bunch of other short lectures by Chinese speakers. So Warfield substituted a much shorter slide show titled MIDDLE HUMAN SCIENCE, a 15 minute lecture using only 11 slides, which became the official Bertalanffy Lecture. "The Road Less Traveled" his much longer talk, with 72 slides taking about an hour, was given also at the same conference, in an evening session, as a workshop class. Thus we can say that "The Road Less Traveled" became the "unofficial Bertalanffy Lecture" or maybe "Bertalanffy Lecture Part 2." Other lectures on this theme took place during the same trip to China, next at a Complexity Conference at TongJi University, Shanghai where Warfield spent a day lecturing, and two days later at at Dr. Xufeng Song’s University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in mainland China.