#livingsystems

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the parts of the whole are interconnected by feedbacks — feedbacks which seem to operate instantaneously.
This is where we can begin to make a fruitful analogy with living systems.”
—John Gribbin
https://johngribbinscience.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/a-quantum-myth-for-our-times/
#johngribbin #quantumtheory #livingsystems

On the 2nd day of #ReFi Barcelona we have @marycamacho presenting the history and status of Holochain.org and Holo.host.
#ReFiBCN #livingsystems

Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor #FredEEmery that I hadn't previously appreciated.

https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/introduction-systems-thinking-selected-readings-edited-by-f-e-emery-1969/

#SystemsThinking #LivingSystems #opensystems

#Kurzgesagt - 'You Are An Impossible #Machine'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPFenJQciw&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell

#Science #Biology #Chemistry #Probability #MolecularBiology #Cell #Cells #Protein #Proteins #Life #LivingSystems #AminoAcid #AminoAcids #DNA #ElectroMagnetism

Reading this recent (2022) article from Fritjof Capra:
The organization of the living:
Maturana’s key insights
included in the latest Constructivist Foundations volume 18(1): 005–011

https://constructivist.info/18/1/005

and I am continually bewildered by the fact that no one in the #Constructivist field figured out yet that #Autopoiesis, although necessary, is not the sufficient condition for #Life.

All #LivingSystems are in fact #DynamicalSystems with memory made of #Material, #Energy, and #Information structures participating continually in both auto- and allopoietic processes.

In fact, the recursive, #Autopoietic processes of learning and growth depend only on (are "structurally coupled" with) the linear #Allopoietic work processes dealing with all the things (resources, waste) in the system's environment and producing the externally observable #behavior of the living (dynamical) system.

You can #observe complex systems.
You can #irritate complex systems.
You can #flip complex systems (by intervening on the system design).
Then you can observe again.

#betacodex #systemsthinking #complexity #orgdev #OrganizationalDevelopment #leadership #newwork #change #ChangeManagement #systemsthinking #futureofleadership #complexitools #livingsystems #organizeforcomplexity #red42 #openspacebeta #VFOT #agile #agility #lean #teal

The cheapest, most efficient & most effective #carboncapture is to utilise #nature
Everything else is literally #Greenwashing
Wasting valuable resources & money on expensive vanity projects on behalf of the #fossilfuel industry should not be an option.
We need mass restoration of these systems instead, to form a stable, resilient ecosystem that we can hand over to our kids with pride.
#peatmoor #seagrass #forest #grassland #soil #LivingSystems #biodiversity
https://lnkd.in/dMEBAzyy

I’ve been pondering the Constructal Law alongside my reading of Christopher Alexander’s _The Nature of Order_. That there doesn’t seem to be much written on the overlap of these two fields seems like a massive gap to me.
#ConstructalLaw #Thermodynamics #Architecture #LivingSystems

System

#OrganismicBiology #LivingSystems #SocialSystems #SystemsThinking

The biochemist Lawrence Henderson was influential through his early use of the term "system" to denote both living organisms and social systems...

https://xan.writeas.com/system