“Unpredictability is a defining hallmark of complex systems. Unpredictability is also the source of all the extraordinary capacities for unbridled creativity in complex systems. Its implications are profound.”
“With just the right, low level of randomness, sometimes referred to as quenched disorder, the system blooms with the ability to explore what Stuart Kauffman calls the ‘adjacent possible.’”
“New opportunities can’t be found if random things aren’t happening here and there, stumbling into new ways of being, new modes to be reconnoitered and exploited. A little randomness keeps the system alive.”
Neil Theise, Notes On Complexity
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