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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

~Kevin Kelly

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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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