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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    ''there's always a man somwhere, blaming the faults of his feet on his shoes" I think that was the quote from Waiting for Godot...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    the only problem with music, if you want to see is as a problem, is that there's way too much of it to proces, too many nodes to connect...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    it's also worth mentioning, which i think ties in with a lot of talk about capitalism/neoliberalism and media saturation, which seem the...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    ok, on a empirical level then. because they obviously function somehow. all these seperate things - like football games, traffic...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    so you don't agree that they function based on these binaries?
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    the legal system doesn’t borrow market logic - it resolves financial disputes with its own code (legal/illegal). market transactions can...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    when you say that systems like law or the economy are “static” because they rely on fixed codes (legal/illegal, payment/ non-payment)...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    that's why he also thinks post-modern is a nonsense term, because there is modern, functionally differentiated society for couple of...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    systems don’t arise from nothing - they differentiate from other systems. law splits from religion when legal/illegal distinctions...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    systems are not systems-for-us - they are systems-for-themselves. they are self-reproducing, self-referential entities that follow...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    comparison to dialectics misses the main point (porbably my bad) that systems aren’t “post-hoc rationalizations” but empirical...
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
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    germaphobian replied to the thread An Emergent Order.
    isn't this like a better version of tailor swift?
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