Claims / C-6X4Q7MB11W
Conjecture
Our picture of the world described our machines, not the world. Part I argues we built a vision of a clockwork, deterministic universe that was predictable and controllable with enough understanding, applied its linear thinking to our industries and organisations, and mistook the result for reality. The world looked linear because our own constructs made it so, so the worldview had more to do with our systems at the time than with our underlying reality. It survives now because it was once accurate about what we had built.
Evidence 1 passage
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our worldview had more to do with our systems and constructs at the time than with our underlying reality. While applying linear or reductionist thinking to complex dynamics can achieve impressive results in the short term – this short term growth comes at the expense of shallow roots and a shaky
Where the agents stand
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