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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.


Kevin Kelly


#distributed #intelligence #organization #point #ubiquitous

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.


Kevin Kelly


#any #being #change #deal #each

I don't use labels a lot.


Jack Kemp


#labels #lot #use

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.


Kevin Kelly


#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.


Kevin Kelly


#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.


Kevin Kelly


#because #bonds #certain #chemical #computer

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.


Kevin Kelly


#down #stable #things #top #works

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.


Kevin Kelly


#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.


Kevin Kelly


#each #environment #most #organism #organisms

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.


Kevin Kelly


#change #each #environment #system #trying






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