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Kevin Kelly

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

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

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"We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh."

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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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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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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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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
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"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."
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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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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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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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