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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network... →
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without... →
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
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... →
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
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... →
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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