☞ The Messiness of Reality and Stories
The world contained in this data does not operate according to the neat Newtonian rules of cause and effect but spirals into the baffling complexity of chaos theory, wherein everything is connected to everything else and even small changes have widespread repercussions. Or rather, this is the world that had always been there, lurking beyond our lim
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
The smartest minds today—including those studying computers, biology, math, physics—have come to understand that the world no longer adheres to predictable, linear mandates. Instead, life is filled with chaos and complexity, periods of order and disorder, linearity and nonlinearity. In place of steady lines, observers now see loops, spirals, wobble
... See moreBruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going to deal with it.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
Nature is much more disorder than order, more multiplicity than uniformity, with the greatest disorder being death itself!
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
The smartest minds today—including those studying computers, biology, math, physics—have come to understand that the world no longer adheres to predictable, linear mandates. Instead, life is filled with chaos and complexity, periods of order and disorder, linearity and nonlinearity. In place of steady lines, observers now see loops, spirals, wobble
... See moreBruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
The difficulty of depicting and understanding bureaucratic realities has had unfortunate results. On the one hand, it leaves people feeling helpless in the face of harmful powers they do not understand, like the hero of The Trial. On the other hand, it also leaves people with the impression that bureaucracy is a malign conspiracy, even in cases whe
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
The world is not a chaotic jumble of people, objects, and events clanging together in disarray. The world is a place of order and logic, a place of predictability. The world is a collection of logical systems!