All Kevin Kelly Quotes
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 all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
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But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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