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.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

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.