But What if Everything Is a System? (2023)

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But What if Everything Is a System?

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"Transformed the view of the ecosystem, because cybernetics would be able to explain how it stabilse itself" – Adam Curtis (2011)

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"Historic computational attempts to model, simulate and make predictions about environmental assemblages, both emerge from and reinforce a systems view on the world." – Tega Brain (2018)

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The Internet of Animals

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"These antelope, elk and other animals are voting with their feet, and we – augmented by technology – are finally listening to them, and adapting our behavior and construction to better account for them." – James Bridle (2022)

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"We just don't know – but if we are prepared to give up some of our desire for totalizing knowledge, if we are prepared to treat understanding as a process and a negotiation, rather than as a route to mastery and dominance, then there is much we can learn and understand from the wisdom of others." – James Bridle (2022)