“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
//Responded elsewhere. I still don't understand what definition of Turchin's you're comparing to...
You... would not like it, I profess... too technological. Yawn.
Best real world example of it -- genome duplication -- two steps process: at first, just a numeral increase (duplication), but then -- future specialization.
Valentin Turchin (1931–2008) was a prominent Soviet cyberneticist, computer scientist, and political dissident whose philosophy is most famously articulated in his foundational 1977 treatise, The Phenomenon of Science: A Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution.
IMEKO +2 The Core Concepts Turchin’s cybernetic worldview blends evolutionary biology, systems theory, and the philosophy of mind into a cohesive, grand-scale framework. His key contributions to cybernetic philosophy include:
meta2014.pereslavl.ru Metasystem Transition (MST): Turchin’s central evolutionary thesis. It argues that evolution occurs in leaps when a system’s control mechanisms are integrated into a higher-level "metasystem". For example, the emergence of multi-cellular organisms from single cells, or the development of human language, culture, and eventually artificial intelligence are all metasystem transitions. The Global Brain: Turchin, alongside contemporaries like Francis Heylighen (with whom he co-founded the Principia Cybernetica Project), posited that human society is forming a planetary, neural-like network. In this framework, human minds act as the processing nodes connected by global communication systems, representing the next "quantum" leap in cosmic evolution. Refal and Supercompilation: A brilliant computer scientist as well as a philosopher, Turchin created the functional programming language Refal. To optimize this language, he invented "supercompilation"—an advanced method of program transformation and optimization.
Academia.edu +2 Major Works To explore Turchin's cybernetic legacy, consider these key texts: The Phenomenon of Science (1977): Available to read via Columbia University Press, this is his magnum opus. It details how the scientific method represents humanity's cybernetic adaptation to the world. The Inertia of Fear (1981): A political treatise that analyzes the Soviet system using cybernetic principles and power dynamics, detailing the mechanisms of totalitarian control and dissident resistance. The Cybernetic Foundation of Mathematics (1983): An exploration of mathematical constructivism where mathematical objects are treated as formal linguistic processes.
Academia.edu +3 Relation to Stanislaw Lem's "Summa" Turchin's sweeping, evolutionary synthesis of technology and biology is frequently compared to Polish science fiction author and futurologist Stanislaw Lem’s philosophical masterpiece, Summa Technologiae (1964). Both works explore the limits of human evolution, the future of artificial intelligence, and the eventual transition of humanity into post-biological, self-regulating cybernetic systems
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//Responded elsewhere. I still don't understand what definition of Turchin's you're comparing to...
You... would not like it, I profess...
too technological. Yawn.
Best real world example of it -- genome duplication -- two steps process: at first, just a numeral increase (duplication), but then -- future specialization.
Valentin Turchin (1931–2008) was a prominent Soviet cyberneticist, computer scientist, and political dissident whose philosophy is most famously articulated in his foundational 1977 treatise, The Phenomenon of Science: A Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution.
IMEKO
+2
The Core Concepts
Turchin’s cybernetic worldview blends evolutionary biology, systems theory, and the philosophy of mind into a cohesive, grand-scale framework. His key contributions to cybernetic philosophy include:
meta2014.pereslavl.ru
Metasystem Transition (MST): Turchin’s central evolutionary thesis. It argues that evolution occurs in leaps when a system’s control mechanisms are integrated into a higher-level "metasystem". For example, the emergence of multi-cellular organisms from single cells, or the development of human language, culture, and eventually artificial intelligence are all metasystem transitions.
The Global Brain: Turchin, alongside contemporaries like Francis Heylighen (with whom he co-founded the Principia Cybernetica Project), posited that human society is forming a planetary, neural-like network. In this framework, human minds act as the processing nodes connected by global communication systems, representing the next "quantum" leap in cosmic evolution.
Refal and Supercompilation: A brilliant computer scientist as well as a philosopher, Turchin created the functional programming language Refal. To optimize this language, he invented "supercompilation"—an advanced method of program transformation and optimization.
Academia.edu
+2
Major Works
To explore Turchin's cybernetic legacy, consider these key texts:
The Phenomenon of Science (1977): Available to read via Columbia University Press, this is his magnum opus. It details how the scientific method represents humanity's cybernetic adaptation to the world.
The Inertia of Fear (1981): A political treatise that analyzes the Soviet system using cybernetic principles and power dynamics, detailing the mechanisms of totalitarian control and dissident resistance.
The Cybernetic Foundation of Mathematics (1983): An exploration of mathematical constructivism where mathematical objects are treated as formal linguistic processes.
Academia.edu
+3
Relation to Stanislaw Lem's "Summa"
Turchin's sweeping, evolutionary synthesis of technology and biology is frequently compared to Polish science fiction author and futurologist Stanislaw Lem’s philosophical masterpiece, Summa Technologiae (1964). Both works explore the limits of human evolution, the future of artificial intelligence, and the eventual transition of humanity into post-biological, self-regulating cybernetic systems
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