Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence

by Alicia Juarrero
2023, MIT Press

open access:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create

/HT @PessoaBrain
/CC @complexsystems

#constraints #Juarrero #context

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To make interesting stuff discoverable in the Fediverse, you have to boost much more generously than on the birdsite.

Day 5 of migraine, never a better time to start Context Changes Everything by Prof. Alicia Juarrero.

#ContextChangesEverything #Juarrero #Bookstodon

To innovate you must push the system far from equilibrium.

#Gatlin & #Juarrero discuss 2 types:
• context-free constraints (we are pre-loaded with assumptions and genes);
• context-sensitive constraints (such as a gait) change the probabilities.

"Closure of context sensitive constraints radically reconfigures the landscape."

Watch on #innovation, #emergence, and #closure: https://vimeo.com/128934608
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