Anything we call a system is defined through relation, not contained within itself. Ice sheets, forests, oceans, atmospheric flows, monsoons. These are not isolated components but coupled processes that stabilise one another through ongoing exchange. The jet stream carries heat that shapes ice. Ice reflects light that shapes temperature. Forests regulate moisture that feeds rainfall. […]
For a long time, serious problem-solving assumed the world could be broken into parts, those parts analysed separately, and the larger situation improved by fixing each component in turn. That still works for bounded problems. It fails when the object is not a part but a whole system composed of vast numbers of interdependent subsystems […]
Meaning does not exist in words, ideas, or intentions taken in isolation. It arises from a relational system in which elements acquire significance only through their differences from one another over time. Words are defined by other words; references defer to further references; interpretation always lags expression. That lag is not an accident or a […]
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