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If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self-organization and selection. We will have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all.


Stuart A. Kauffman


#emergence #science #systems #life

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in what is called cyberspace. People have learned how to boot up, activate, and transmit their brains. Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.


Timothy Leary


#communication #cybernetics #cyberspace #intelligence #internet

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.


Norbert Wiener


#intelligence #robots #intelligence

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress


Steve Grand


#control #cybernetics #intelligence

Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.


Steve Grand


#life #life

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.


Lewis Fry Richardson


#science #systems #science

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.


Arthur Stanley Eddington


#science #systems #science

The map is not the territory.


Alfred Korzybski


#metaphysics #philosophy #metaphysics






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