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Systems Ultra
- systems thinking has arisen in response to our dawning realization of interconnectedness, our discovery that working with things in isolation is increasingly ineffective and even counterproductive.
from The Ecosystem Hypothesis by Medium
Keely Adler and added
- Universal Systems have Reach, unintended potential. For example the computer in your washing machine could, given enough memory and time, do astrophysics calculations. Oddly most jumps to Universality have been accidents. Only since the Enlightenment has their significance been understood and sought after.Both the Principle of Mediocrity (we are no... See more
from The Beginning of Infinity by Alex MacCaw
Matt Sornson added
- We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational wo... See more
from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium
Keely Adler added