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James Lovelock Reflects On Gaia's Legacy : Nature News & Comment
Peer review shouldn't be used on larger topics
A 1984 rejection letter from Nature of your paper outlining the Gaia hypothesis is displayed in the exhibition. What do you think of peer review — is it necessary? Well, as far as I’m concerned, I don’t have any peer review. But I don’t think it is practical to get rid of it…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Composite unities have organization and structure; structure
`Structure' refers to the actual components and the actual relations that realise a particular composite unity. While the organization is necessarily invariant (to conserve identity) structure is not. Structure is in continual change. Structure entails many more dimensions…
Orthogonality:
To be orthogonal means to interact with the client system in such a way as to not become enmeshed in the existing organization of the system as yet one more constituting component. When this occurs you become part of the problem and hence cannot be part of a solution. Acting…
Composite unity; the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
With the composite unity we do something more. Firstly, we distinguish a simple unity and then we decompose it and separate its components and relations. In the Universe we would claim that the composite unity composed itself, independently of us and what we do. We would assume…