Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. — Quoted

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“Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.”

Kevin Kelly · Design

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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Future

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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Work

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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

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