Well, my constant prattling on about complexity science is
that the breakthrough has finally been found allowing reality
to be properly modeled ...FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

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Well, Johnathan, I agree with what you say, but I'm not so sure your
posts or mine make much difference. People get very polarized against
the science of complexity, it being too --- "far out". What has kept
me going the past 3 or 4 years since discovering the Principia
Cybernetica has been the knowledge that the Global Brain is
automatically, cybernetically, unavoidably locking-in, since the Earth
is full of systems and they will undergo a metasystem transition with
no way to stop it. So I've got to the point of realizing that it will
happen and such people as you and me will only have one effect upon it
- to possibly speed it up. Like a pile of brush just starting to burn,
one may let it go at a normal rate or one may pour 5 gallons of diesel
fuel on it to hurry it along. In any case, I admire your posts and you
know, it's kind of nice to see somethig positive on the horizon for
once (actaully, it's aleady here, it's just refining itself, growing
up). Positive self-fulfilling prediction also has a lot to do with it,
to be optimistic in the face of the negativism one sees all around them
every day.

In my early days I tried discussion and debate with cyberneticists and
they're worse than anyone. Personalities, endless debate. So I just
sit back and watch the show. The ending is inevitable. An organism
wants what's best for itself, the cybernetic purpose of life,
"comfortable survival". Good work.

Don