glyph 636: Stuart Kauffman At Home in the Universe ... complex adaptive systems (CAS), self-organization, autopoiesis ... spontaneous order is not freeorder, but it is related (glyph 625) ... F. A. Hayek
Stuart Kauffman wrote:
This quotation is found on the first page of Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, by Gayle Pergamit and Chris Peterson, 1997, inspired by Matt and Gail Taylor's (MG Taylor Corporation) DesignShop™"For what can the teeming molecules that hustled themselves into self-reproducing metabolisms, the cells coordinating their behaviors to form multicelled organisms, the ecosystems, and even economic and pollitical systems have in common? The wonderful possibiltiy, to be held as a working hypothesis, bold but fragile, is that on many fronts, life evolves toward a regime that is poised between order and chaos. The evocative phrase that points to this working hypothesis is this: life exists at the edge of chaos...Networks in the regime near the edge of chaos ~~this compromise between order and suprise~~ appears best able to coordinate complex activities and best able to evolve as well." —Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, 1995
freeorder is not spontaneous order - it is a balance among kinds of order that serves quest
Kauffman's At Home in the Universe is important for understanding freeorder.
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August 14, 2022