When emergence goes awry.
Ant Death Circles Explained (by DiscoveryNetworks)
the priesthood of all believers.
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To paraphrase Luther: the priesthood of all believers. To paraphrase Tony Jones: the church is flat. To paraphrase Moltmann: it’s about friendship. ~ Mike Stavlund.
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While there are undoubtedly parts of the community that fear the uncertainty of revolution, there are parts of the community that have embraced this uncertainty to make the way for change. The language of victimhood ignores these Copts — and for that reason alone, it is long past time to reject the language of victimhood.
where ensembles of particles have emergent behavior—as Johnson noted, a single water molecule isn’t wet; that’s a property that emerges from a population of water molecules
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… looking at a water molecule, could you ever imagine what it’s like to swim or surf? Emergent behavior is suprising and unexpected. |
String theory officially useful, may not represent reality | Ars TechnicaReddit has far more negative feedback loops dialed in than traditional media (e.g. ABC) does. If someone posted a comment tying this to the Tea Party, that comment quickly gets scrutinized and gets downvoted into oblivion if evidence isn’t presented.
In Egypt’s confusion, one thing stands out: Egyptians, and Arabs elsewhere, want to run their own affairs. Kings or generals may slow progress to that end, but they cannot stop it.
random movements by single individuals can easily generate changes in direction. However, eventually a sort of consensus will develop based on the motivation of the majority of the flock members, and the flock will fly off to its destination in a fairly direct manner.
any individual can initiate a flock movement, which then propagates through the flock in a wave radiating out from the initiation site. These “maneuver waves” could move in any direction through the flock, including from back to front.
This intensive and egalitarian process is important both procedurally and substantively, Mr. Graeber says. “One of the things that revolutionaries have learned over the course of the 20th century is that the idea of the ends justifying the means is deeply problematic,” he says. “You can’t create a just society through violence, or freedom through a tight revolutionary cadre. You can’t establish a big state and hope it will go away. The means and ends have to be the same.
we don’t know what will happen
We have in hand 17 [plants grown from the] 4,000-year-old lentils. Now we’re going to plant our sprouts in the field and try to get seeds from them. … Our plants are living in a sterile environment, but we don’t know what will happen when they’re planted in the field.
We don’t know what will happen because we don’t understand (the) chaos and complexity (of our eco system) at all. e.g. We can’t calculate what a waterfall will look like a few seconds from now. Not with all our computing power in the whole world. Reality can make these calculations, but we need to get a lot better at math.
At the moment, we only understand simple linear stuff… calculations done in serial (not parallel). Linear / serial process is the sum total of the achievement and limitation of top-down modernism.
My guess is postmodernism is really about understanding chaos and complexity and everything that emerges from that.
And the cycle will repeat. We will indeed be down the rabbit hole a little bit further that we are now, but then we will reach the limit of that understanding chaos and complexity bring us. And then we will figure out the rabbit hole does goes deeper yet, using some other kind of thought.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
~Albert Einstein
An excellent introduction to the world of Chaos and Emergence and how this new understanding is fundamentally counter to the way modern science has traditionally viewed the world (as a deterministic clock, winding down, and where any notion of self organization were taboo) - that is until the chaos of the butterfly effect shattered everything we thought we knew about Reality.
Learn how the Certainty of Modernity and the Flat Newtonian Dream collapsed and why it’s not coming back, forever lost in the our new understanding of Chaos - where Complexity can Emerge from Simplicity.
Solo Dei Gloria
