The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree.
War is very simple, but in war the simplest things become very difficult.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
Efficiency remains important, but the ability to adapt to complexity and changing circumstances is the prime directive.
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them.
A system is more than the sum of its parts. It may exhibit adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self-preserving, and sometimes evolutionary behavior.
