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  • I admit to a strong ambivalence on this term, and the various cultural formations around it. My MIT nerd tendency is to sneer (see Marvin Minsky/on holism) but I've also always had a kind of tropism towards the California systems-thinking school, where holism and systems are supposed to be objects of study in their own right.
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Marvin Minsky/on holism

03 Sep 2022 - 03 Sep 2022
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    • The point being that if we had good, componentized theories of minds, we wouldn't need holism, we would see the mechanics of how complex traits are made out of the intereactions of simple components.