I love it when Glen (or anyone) introduces new terms which offer nuanced
alternatives to the more simple/obvious/direct/blunt terms. i.e.
Anastamosis vs
Resectioning/Bypassing/Self-Healing/Network-Refactoring/Adaptivity?
I think this is the ideation behind my questions about the emergent
BRICS+ vs NATO+ structure/dynamics:
If we look at political structures, they too struggle with
over-reification. Systems idealize permanence, but political reality
reveals itself in shifting alliances, the ebb and flow of influence,
and the redirection of resources in response to new pressures. As
software structures grow in complexity, they parallel political and
social constructs, often calcifying in ways that resist needed
changes. In this context, anastomotic computing could offer a sort
of “wuwei for code,” emphasizing responsiveness and transience over
rigid structure, letting code act in harmony with shifting needs
rather than forcing it into premature stasis.
I can't help but believe that this over-reification is part of the
ever-active wheel of evolution... the "over" reification is relative
to the parts/subsystems of the emerging "system" but this stasis is what
provides the stability for the higher level (more aggregate?) system to
now explore a whole qualitatively new suite of "adjacent possible
affordances".
I don't know if Glen is parsing this as convoluted word-salad nonsense
but if there were one implication I hope he weighs in on or elaborates
it is cryptic references to "levels" in the past which *I* was only able
to catch the gist of but suspect is relevant to my hypo-thesis above?
Tx to SG for (re?)introducing wuwei, have we discussed here (or only
over tequila at TVM) the Wuwei vs Stationary Action? Are the ebb and
flow of money and power and commodities among the NATO+/BRICS+
superorganisms describable as Onsager relations? Are our global
geopolitical-economics a near-equilibrium system (before the Nukes
actually fly?).
On 11/1/24 3:32 AM, Santafe wrote:
I have to say, that qualifies as art.
The idealists will never stop idealizing and then reifying their ideal. To
Engineer is Human. But those of us who know (or merely confidently believe)
reality is made up of a diverse non-wellfounded set of ... what? ... urges? ...
nano-agents? ... IDK, whatever, will always anastomose that built environment
... or at least reclaim it like a hermit crab squatting in a tin can.
I like the visual and deeper concept, Glen. A kind of wuwei attitude.
sequeing impermanence of political structures to over-reified software:
Today at lunch, John Zingale lamented that the residence time of code in the
system seems to be decreasing. Perhaps Anastomotic Computing is the next big
thing.
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