I hope this doesn't offend Outsideness.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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No it is not. You are actually citing people who are questionable to begin with. Your Novalistic love won't save you. If you want to actually acquaint yourself, you should read
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Telling Thomas Murphy to read is a flex that will never get old
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True but the measure of complexity for a given structure is not just robustness, but also generative entrenchment. The more a structure evolves, the more the past and existing constraints are entrenched, to the point that sometimes change in the colloquial sense becomes untenable
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Also you mentioned something very specific that is often ignored. You said 'gradual' change. Yes, but you see the fanatic proponents of cybernetics are precisely those who think that it bypasses gradual change.
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Think of a very simplistic example. Building a wall, so you lay the first layer of the bricks, then next and next. Now as you move upward you realize how the bricks are structured, and the way you are limited to only a certain kinds of actions or architectural configurations.
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This is called dynamic stability in complexity sciences. Certain features of the system cannot be changed not only because they are foundational but because any action on the system is actually informed by such entrenched constraints.
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Yeah yeah, this is the man who is fine with Proust and Novalis.
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Novalis did anticipate cybernetics (an its successors), after all.
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Hi Reza, I have a question. I'm distant enough from my old cybernetics work to not need to defend its obvious weaknesses / false narratives, but want to give its due. My question: what validity do you think the "systems philosophy" / philosophy of technology parts have?
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The "comment" part of the question: the attention to organization and broader information ontology still have things to offer imo (especially on ecology), and thats even after I've mostly moved onto way different philosophy questions
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