“The communication with the slip box becomes fruitful only at a high level of generalization, namely that of establishing communicative relations of relations. And it becomes productive only at the moment of evaluation, and is thus bound to a certain time and is to a high degree accidental. […]
The real problem thus becomes therefore one of producing accidents with sufficiently enhanced probabilities for selection.”
– Niklas Luhmann, “Communicating with Slip Boxes”