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And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

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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.

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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

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Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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