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[Robert] Rosen’s answer to the epistemological form of the question “What is life?” (i.e., “What are the defining characteristics of a natural system for us to perceive it as being alive?”) is … “A material system is an organism if, and only if, it is closed to efficient causation.” This ‘self-sufficiency’ in efficient causation is what we implicitly recognize as the one feature that distinguishes a living system from a nonliving one.
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Show threadSönke SchwenkNov 21, 2023

Developers need internal qualities such as maintainability and extensibility. Buyers, for example, need an affordable price and performance at a given time. And users may need usability and certain features.

Only if we can balance these requirements without overburdening any party will we have viable software. The tool for doing this is called software architecture.

#softwaredevelopment #softwarearchitecture #livingsystem #allpartiesmatter

Sönke SchwenkNov 21, 2023

Software is a living system.

It needs care and attention to continue to live and thrive. It must remain habitable for all the people who live in that system: its developers, but also its users and buyers. Otherwise, it will die.

#softwaredevelopment #softwarearchitecture #livingsystem #allpartiesmatter

🍉 –Hans Bot– 🙃May 28, 2023
Please have a watch #LivingSystem https://www.ted.com/talks/damon_gameau_the_story_that_shapes_your_relationship_with_nature/c
Damon Gameau: The story that shapes your relationship with nature

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