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[LunarLepidoptera]

Hi, i'm Lunar Lepidoptera (or Moth), i'm just now starting to actually 'get into' (whatever that means)
posting on Cool™ forums like this one. I've lurked around a bit and finally feel like i can actually say stuff here. I'm interested in a bunch of random crap, chemistry, biology, all of the computer stuff, weird games/films/music, just whatever gets my mind moving really, and this place seems like a good place for that!
Really just want to see cool things from people and share cool things i find/make, i'm always happy to share ideas

Most recently I've been into chaos theory and cybernetics, as well as the cool aesthetic things that can arise from them. I REALLY recommend Complexity. The Emerging Science at Edge of Order and Chaos which was published back in 1972, it's not math heavy at all but loosely connects the concepts of chaos theory between all kinds of fields of study that's just fascinating to me.

[Melooon]

Hi Lunar welcome to the forum 

That's sounds like a great book  I might try and find a copy! Iv been thinking about chaos as a general idea a lot lately. Have you come to any personal conclusions or opinions after reading it?

Hope you enjoy your time here!

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[LunarLepidoptera]

Hi! The book helped to sort of solidify some long-standing ideas I had floating in my head that I'd stumbled across or heard from other subjects, like memetics and evolutionary economics. Things like the Cambrian explosion could be seen as the same sort of thing as the enlightenment, or the industrial revolution, where there's this huge explosion of diversity in the structure of new things. In the Cambrian explosion, it's biology, in the enlightenment, it's ideas, in the industrial revolution, it's technologies. Through a particular lens I kinda see humanity as one big super-organism making smaller collective organs and stuff. I mean that's not ALL we are that's just ONE single way of looking at ourselves, and there's so many more. And forums like this to me is going back to an interlinked decentralized network of things like a mycelium-root network in the forest, rather than a top-down feeling of forced order.

Also thanks in particular for the link to the intro to web revival, 'cause on some level I knew it was a movement towards this 'older' style and form of websites, but couldn't find a name to call it!

[Onio]

Welcome! I'd like to hear about that as well ^