Via Lynne’s blog:
More Book Fun (via Early Modern Notes).
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Ken Wilber’s Sex, Ecology, Spirituality : The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition.
Of course, many system theorists actually use the dynamics of B, or living systems, and make them paradigmatic for all levels, with equally unsatisfactory results but now in both directions: B underexplains C and overexpains or is retrotensive with A, trying, for example, to read autopoiesis into the physiosphere—unconvincingly.