Complex Adaptive Systems Quotes

“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as a discrete or isolated event - impacts cascade and spill over.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“In these paradigm shifts, addressing individual parts of a problem will not resolve anything.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“With complex, systemic challenges, there are no individual winners. Collectively addressing these means we all win; failure means we all lose.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“What is the flow and impact of disinformation? How is the disinformation spreading and what are its effects?”
― Roger spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Overall, then, we will view cas [complex adaptive systems] as systems composed of interacting agents described in terms of rules. These agents adapt by changing their rules as experience accumulates. In cas, a major part of the environment of any given adaptive agent consists of other adaptive agents, so that a portion of any agent's efforts at adaptation is spent adapting to other adaptive agents. This one feature is a major source of the complex temporal patterns that cas generate. To understand cas we must understand these ever-changing patterns.”
― John H. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

“Tags [distinctive agent features observable by other agents] almost always define the network by delimiting the critical interactions, the major connections. Tags acquire this role because the adaptive processes that modify cas [complex adaptive systems] select for tags that mediate useful interactions and against tags that cause malfunctions. That is, agents with useful tags spread, while agents with malfunctioning tags cease to exist.”
― John H. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

“The longer I work in AI, the more I think humans are just simple pattern matching machines with a small scratch pad for memory.”
― Peter Welinder