Today’s Book of the Day is Les Idées. Leur habitat, leur vie, leurs mœurs, leur organisation, written by Edgar Morin in 1991 and published by Seuil. La Méthode 4, by Edgar Morin. In La Méthode IV, Edgar Morin continues the monumental task begun in the previous volumes: the reconstitution of knowledge through a complex epistemology that integrates science, philosophy, and anthropology into a…

What do these words have in common?

Processes/function/nurture are emergent and shape the structures which they stem from. They are like transformations, stating how the structures interact, like the process of weaving information. In a semantic interpretation they define the axiomatic rules.

Structure/form/nature are like the information web as result of the processes of interweaving. In a semantic interpretation they define axiomatic structures. (Axioms, and combinations of axioms as result of axiomatic rules)

Furthermore, a quote by John Wheeler partially also fits here: (On describing gravity of General Relativity): "Spacetime tells matter how to move, and matter tells spacetime how to curve." - how does it relate to the previous trains of thought?

- spacetime is an emergent structure defining how it will "process itself" via matter. (Matter as "dense and active information clot") (also related to my concept of nodus vacui - the metaphorical "self-knotting void knot")

(Also: an older post I made some months ago about the structure-process-complex idea: (that's a rough simplified frame of concept:)

Product Owner Day 2021: Agile manifesto in practice for self-organized teams

“The best architectures, requirements and designs are created by self-organized teams,” claims the Agile Manifesto. But what exactly do such teams look like? What promotes and what hinders their self-organization? The second Product Owner Day is just around the corner on April 29, and the Viennese organizational consultant, non-fiction and crime writer Sigi Kaltenecker is offering a full-day…

Urban complexity. The case of Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.

Introduction

Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol in northern Italy, has around 106,000 inhabitants. During the gradual decline of the Romans’ influence in the 7th century, Bavarian immigration took place and so the German populations have been present in this region since that time. Until the 1st World War, South Tyrol was part of the Austrian-Hungaric Empire, with around 29,000 German inhabitants…