I made this button for all those people out there who want to keep complexity complex, who understand that feedback is the name of the game, and that the main rule of the game is that the rules must continually be modified. If you know about Calvinball, you know what I’m talking about: a recursive looping, a complex manifestation of manifestation, a new way of knowing, and a new way of knowing about knowing, which happens to be very, very old.
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- Thinking about thinking about feedback Ok I’ve been thinking about feedback. One thing that struck me as interesting was that feedback, as a concept, seems to assume two things (and probably more): 1) step-wise time (and thus some kind of...
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