liminal 🦠on Nostr: I keep returning to thoughts about how systems adapt and are able to leverage ...
I keep returning to thoughts about how systems adapt and are able to leverage destructive-entropic processes as a forcing function for variety. How systems are able to adapt to their environment acording to what is meaningful to them. In this case, the forest ecosystem adapts over long scales.
Like there was an adaptation that enabled this resource recyling, co-evolved over evolved time, but the accumulation of forest load and dampened resource recycling happened too fast for the forest to be 'aware' of the changes to adapt, let alone prepare for the intensifying tinderbox.
And these effects happen because humans try to solve problems that occur in their shortened experience of time.
Makes me wonder about the similarities between the fairy tale "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" and the analogues of human intervention. But to contrast, we are part of nature, so the comparison can't be completely true.
Not an expert at all, but this really sent me thinking, and probably will continue for a while.
Like there was an adaptation that enabled this resource recyling, co-evolved over evolved time, but the accumulation of forest load and dampened resource recycling happened too fast for the forest to be 'aware' of the changes to adapt, let alone prepare for the intensifying tinderbox.
And these effects happen because humans try to solve problems that occur in their shortened experience of time.
Makes me wonder about the similarities between the fairy tale "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" and the analogues of human intervention. But to contrast, we are part of nature, so the comparison can't be completely true.
Not an expert at all, but this really sent me thinking, and probably will continue for a while.