An international journal making sense of a complex world through systems thinking.
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Every model of reality contains a greater or lesser portion of reality. Error is the point at which reality exceeds the model. This is why a culture that seeks to eliminate error risks also losing the principal mechanism through which it discovers the limits of its own representations.
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With the birth of formal mathematics, particularly in ancient Greece, and then with its modern systematisation, humanity begins to conceive of complex abstract thought. The world is reduced to numbers, proportions and ideal forms. Thought takes on a deductive, sequential structure.
