#stuart kauffman

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Only systems that hover on the border between order and chaos exhibit the needed general stability and capacity to explore the universe of possible solutions to challenges.

Stuart A. Kauffman

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One of the key ideas in modern evolutionary theory is that of preadaptation. The term may sound oxymoronic but its significance is perfectly logical: every feature of an organism, in addition to its obvious functional characteristics, has others that could become useful in totally novel ways under the right circumstances. The forerunners of air-breathing lungs, for example, were swim bladders with which fish maintained their equilibrium; as some fish began to move onto the margins of land, those bladders acquired a new utility as reservoirs of oxygen. Biologists say that those bladders were preadapted to become lungs. Evolution can innovate in ways that cannot be prestated and is nonalgorithmic by drafting and recombining existing entities for new purposes--shifting them from their existing function to some adjacent novel function--rather than inventing features from scratch.

Stuart A. Kauffman

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Stuart A. Kauffman – Kutsalı Yeniden Keşfetmek (2023)

Cansız madde nasıl olur da kendiliğinden canlılığa yol açar? Zihin dediğimiz şey nerden çıktı? Peki ya ahlâk? Bütün bunlar tanrısal bir müdahale olmadan çıkar mı? Bilim bu soruya evet olarak cevap verdiği için kutsallığı kaldırmakla suçlanıyor. Oysa 3,8 milyar yıllık evrimden sonra canlı bir hücrenin örülmüş tümleşik karmaşıklığını düşünün: Hücrenin bir çırpıda biçimlendirildiğini varsaymak mı,…

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—Stuart Kauffman, A World Beyond Physics

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Stuart A. Kauffman – Düzenin Kökenleri (2022)

Stuart A. Kauffman – Düzenin Kökenleri (2022)

‘Düzenin Kökenleri’, doğanın fiziğini çok daha iyi anlamamıza katkı yapacak harika bir çalışma. Stuart A. Kauffman, biyologların canlılar dünyasında tanık oldukları moleküler kendi kendine düzenleme süreçlerini fiziğin bakış açısından ele alıyor. Kauffman, karmaşık biyolojik sistemlerde yaşamın kökenleri ve düzenin korunması konusundaki heyecan verici tartışmanın kalbine giderek, kendi kendine…

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Leading into the Future IV: Order, Chaos and Three Societies

Leading into the Future IV: Order, Chaos and Three Societies

As we probe more deeply into the challenge of leading into the future, it is important to recognize both the newness of the world in which we are leading and the organizational and societal structures, problems and opportunities that we have inherited and that are emerging in our current world. The newness might best be identified as a form of “edginess”—for we are living on the edge of new forms…

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Gate's Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” Here’s why it matters to you.

Gate's Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” Here’s why it matters to you.

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Expansion of adjacent possibles by compression

I just looked at a "TBD" in a message and thought "Total Big Deal". I wonder if social-media driven acronyms are going to be a new evolutionary path for the generation of novel phrases. I can picture a Kauffman-esque paper title: "Compression expands adjacent possibles"