“It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.” LiteratureStudyEvolutionLessonsPrimariesEvolveOrganismsEvidentTandem Author:Kevin Kelly
“When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.” EnvironmentOrganizationEnvironmentalOrganismsTurbulence Author:Kevin Kelly
“The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.” WayWantMindUseEnergyTechnologyProduceEvolutionHigherDiversityIdealsComplexesRateComplexityOrganismsExpandingDensitySpecializationEnergy Use Author:Kevin Kelly
“But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.” TryingMatterFactsCertainPathEvolutionWalkingComputerModelsBasesStructureChemicalsOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.” ReasonHelpingAbleLiteratureDealsEnvironmentOrganizationOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.” EnvironmentBroadsOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.” EnvironmentOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.” OrganizationFunctionPersistOrganismsAnticipate Author:Kevin Kelly
“The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.” WayPastLiteratureOrganizationOrganismsSignalsAnticipateSupper Time Author:Kevin Kelly
