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aeonquetoday at 2:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Seems to me we’re ignoring history: 1. Prescott Lecky destroyed the validity of Pavlov’s experiments with his paper on Self Consistency. 2. Macys conference in 1960s converged on the idea of systems theory and cybernetics; cause and effect is for elementary school - self organization is for the adults. 3. Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (Autopoesis) are rolling in their graves.

It’s not a new discovery if something better has already been in use for 50+ years.

Am I missing something here?


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sigbottletoday at 2:51 PM

Whoa. Guess I have more literature reading to be doing! Always interesting to hear a counterargument along with future reading