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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all....

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one...

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

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