p.36 The complexity of a living individual minus its ability to anticipate (in respect of its environment)
equals the uncertainty of the environment minus its sensibility (in respect of that particular living individual). -Jorge
Wagensberg, Complexity Versus Uncertainty
p.42-43 The physicist Jorge Wagensberg... develops definitions of information, uncertainty, and complexity
from which he can derive measures of "independence with respect to the uncertainty of the environment" and use these to show
that persistence... in a complex environment depends... on various ways of maintaining "independence"... active measures
that require anticipation. [JLJ - Complexity Versus Uncertainty: The Question of Staying Alive, Wagensberg, 2000)
p.76 We vary the initial conditions slightly (and often systematically) to see what changes and what stays
the same. This is the way to gather useful information from the world to guide our further campaigns of avoidance
and enhancement.
p.82 Looking at precisely the same case, again and again, is utterly uninformative, but looking
at similar cases is, in fact, diagnostic.
p.157 There are two requirements for a meaningful choice: information and a path for the information to
guide. Without one, the other is useless or worse.
p.259 Human consciousness was made for sharing ideas.
