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Many people think that "history doesn't repeat itself" so they dislike because "they are based on the and thus not useful for identifying all the associated with the that will happen in the ."

This is most likely because they think models are for producing , while the best use of models is, instead, to plan future .

are often made as statements about what **will** occur in the future, while they should be only statements about of what **may** most probably happen in the (most immediate) future.

Predictions based on historical data define the boundary of the narrow conical "", the "volume" of which rapidly increases with longer prediction times.

I see more and more individuals doing "organizational change in complex systems" frowning on the mention of "best practices", documentation, and planning, because:

> "in an increasingly interconnected world where technology, information, and customer expectations evolve at an accelerating rate, insights from past performance quickly become irrelevant in many scenarios"

medium.com/topology-insight/be

All such "modern approaches" to dealing with *complex systems* forget that the *insight from past performances* is the **only** thing we can actually rely on while preparing for the uncertain future.

They also forget that organizations normally work, not in any one of the *clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic domains* at any point in time, but they are rather *in and out of all of those situations all the time*, and different parts of the same organization can also be in different situations at the same time.

Best practices are also not "silver bullets" as they would like you to believe. Best practices are the default (only possible) response the system can produce to par the current situation because it depends primarily on the the system is currently in.

Having *diverse perspectives*, allowing time for *experimentation*, and maintaining short and direct *learning loops* are not some new and "improved" methods the organization should start adopting when things get complicated or complex, but should be rather part of the (documented and planned) very ***best practices*** an organization adopts as the *normal way of doing business*.

> must have emerged from the physical world. This emergence must be understood if our knowledge is not to degenerate (more than it has already) into a collection of disjoint specialized disciplines.

>... and require different levels of ... physical theory is described by rate-dependent dynamical that have no , while depends, at least to some degree, on of dynamics by rate-independent memory ."

researchgate.net/publication/1

>A is something, A, which brings something, B, its sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its , as that in which itself stands to C.

(1902)

In a sign is the describing (documenting) a ("mental model") abstracted from a real (object) by an (the interpretant).

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is not a describing the or the of an .
It is rather a (an algorithm) that describes () the of , i.e. specifies what the has to perform at any moment depending on the constructor's own and that of its .

The of the is defined by its as constructed by following the algorithm. Besides the functions involved in this process of self-construction and maintenance, a mature organism is also involved in the of (messages, seeds) for dissemination () in the environment.

A rare short and clearheaded analysis of the **real** risks associated with the use of tools in contrast and response to the general overwhelming "doomsday" hype such as that presented in the recent *6 months moratorium* letter.

aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-mi

If by some chance gets in a position with the power to "wipe out" humanity, it will be not because of its superior intelligence but because of humanity itself.

The truth is that intelligence neither craves power nor it is a precondition to raise into a position of power. Quite the opposite.

Some wise words from John Dewey about the difference between and written back in 1934.

newrepublic.com/article/100340

Humberto Romesin on ***structural determinism***
*Our Genome Does Not Determine Us*
Presentation made at the Remaining Human Forum
Vancouver, B.C., May 22, 2001
asc-cybernetics.org/2001/RH-Ma

1943 - The year when it all started:
, ,
From: *Brains, Machines, and Mathematics*
by: *Michael A. Arbib*

Control theories such as (Perceptual Control Theory), which are based on , are primarily focused on the control loop closed through the system's and have little or no concern for the more important, internal motor loop controlling the system's and cycles.

is usually described with as in the article below comparing the works from and :

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full

Basically, what vector space semantics says is that the meaning of a message depends on the provided by the sender's and the receiver's .

As they are two different physical entities they will obviously be in different states, so the two meaning can never be *exactly* the same.

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People often interpret *Ashby’s Law* (after W. Ross Ashby) as if the *system*'s internal states must have the ***same level of variety*** as its *environment* in order to survive, which implies that the system should be able to *respond* (react) to every little disturbance from the environment.

This is not completely true because, on the lowest, , level, the system blocks from an (environmental) reaching the (internal, system protected) in two ways:

1️⃣ isolation (sheltering) from most environmental disturbances, and

2️⃣ reaction to (parring with) the remaining disturbance that managed to *break through* this passive protection.

from "Intro to "
pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.htm

Stages of according to :

4️⃣ Incompetence: I think that I know what I'm doing, but I don't;
3️⃣ Conscious : I know that I don’t know;
2️⃣ Competence: I know that I know;
1️⃣ Unconscious : I am doing it without thinking.

A truly remarkable thinker
**Anthony Wilden** - *** and ***
*Essays in Communication and Exchange* - Second edition (1980)

A classic on and from written back in 1995 when polymer folding was still a *computationally intractable problem*😀.
Still, his thoughts are as powerful as ever.

"Artificial Life Needs a Real Epistemology"

academia.edu/3075569/Artificia

Hunter-gatherer, societies, in which there is no reason to hoard more than one currently needs, are highly as well as .

From:
*Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots* by **James Suzman**

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