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Recursion is the movement that tirelessly integrates contingency into its own functioning to realize its telos. In so doing it generates an impenetrable complexity in the course of time. Organisms exhibit a complexity of relations between parts and whole inside the body and with its environment (e.g. structural coupling) in its functioning. Life also exhibits such complexity, since it expects the unexpected, and in every encounter it attempts to turn the unexpected into an event that can contrib
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― Recursivity and Contingency
― Recursivity and Contingency
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Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you.
Washington A. Roebling quoted by
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― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
― The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
