From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think there are three paradigm shifts in the way that we understand that
order can arise from chaos.
I'm adding a fourth from anthropology ...
0. Nobody/everybody is in charge
*0.5: Animistic. The spirits are in charge; the entire tribe is charged with
keeping them happy. More amorphous than the hierarchical model, but less so
than "nobody in charge".* Magic considered as a technology.
1. Hierarchical -- somebody is in charge: feudalism, the Great Chain of
Being, creationism
2. Self-regulating -- feedback loops, democracy, Darwinism, classical
economics
3. Self-organizing -- networks, post-modernism, endosymbiosis
Each of these contains its predecessors, in the sense that they are
increasingly complete models of nature.
Nick
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