My own view on the question of #progress—#scientific, #technical, #social, #moral,…—is that #novelty, of the sort that tends to persist, is a result of #synergies "discovered" via #EvolutionaryProcesses with trajectories that are essentially unpredictable.
Novel systems that express greater effectiveness over greater scope, or increased coherence over increased context of meaning-making, are anti-entropic and therefore tend to persist. Lather, rinse, repeat…
My own view on the question of #progress—#scientific, #technical, #social, #moral,…—is that #novelty, of the sort that tends to persist, is a result of #synergies "discovered" via #EvolutionaryProcesses with trajectories that are essentially unpredictable.
Novel systems that express greater effectiveness over greater scope, or increased coherence over increased context of meaning-making, are anti-entropic and therefore tend to persist. Lather, rinse, repeat…
Jef Allbright
Lucas C. Wheeler