Alle prosesser drives av ulikheter
ulikheter framstår som krefter (som driver prosesser)
Effektive prosesser drives av mottakersiden;
Dette gjelder fysiske, sosiale og mentale prosesser
Økende entropi medfører homogenisering som ender med stillstand; ingenting skjer…
Likeverd er ikke likestilling; 0 og 1 er likeverdige, men ikke like…
En verden uten ulikhet er meningsløs
læring drives av ulikheter mellom verden og din mentale modell (av verden)
energiomsetning (arbeid) drives av ulike energiformer/-tilstander
homogenisering av synspunkter/meninger ender i dumskap
"The idea of causality . . . is inseparable from the idea of time. A process of change involves a beginning and a becoming, and these are only conceivable as processes in time. . . . Thus in the process of change by which goods of a higher order are gradually transformed into goods of the first order, until the latter finally bring about the state called the satisfaction of human needs, time is an essential feature of our observations."
― Carl Menger (1840-1921)
“To exist is to differ; difference is, in a sense, the truly substantial side of things; it is at once their ownmost possession and that which they hold most in common. This must be our starting point, and we must refrain from further explaining this principle, since all things come back to it—including identity, which is more usually, but mistakenly, taken as the point of departure.”
—Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)
"Information is more a matter of process than of storage… Information is important as a stage in the continuous process by which we observe the outer world, and act effectively upon it… To be alive is to participate in a continuous stream of influences from the outer world and acts on the outer world, in which we are merely the transitional stage. In the figurative sense, to be alive to what is happening in the world, means to participate in a continual development of knowledge and its unhampered exchange."
― Norbert Wiener (1894-1964)
“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
― W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)
"Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases."
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)
"The characteristic of the organism is first that it is more than the sum of its parts and second that the single processes are ordered for the maintenance of the whole."
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)
"All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
—John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"Every process generates information that can be used to improve it."
— George E.P. Box (1919-2013)
“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
"We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control."
― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
"Processes don't do work, people do"
― John Seely Brown
"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria"
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
“The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.”
― Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”
“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.”
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.”
― Kuan Yew Lee (1923-2015)
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
― Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”
― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
"One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."
— Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
"winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth."
— Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences."
—Mikhail Gorbachev
"The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact."
― Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
"Equality is the natural foundation of industrial society”
— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
“Equality… belongs essentially to decline: the chasm between man and man, class and class, the multiplicity of types, the will to be one’s self, and to distinguish one’s self out — that which I call pathos of distance — characterizes every strong age.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
…