[...]sified by the flow of money.

='strcls'>*="trms">story of the bone='strcls'>*
(organism never forgot its mineral o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins)
in organic ="trms">world, soft tissue (gels and aerosols, muscle and nerve) reigned supreme until 500 million years ago. at that point, some of the conglomerations of fleshy ="trms">matter-energy that made up life underwent a sudden mineralization, a new ="trms">material for constructing living creatures emerged='lgc'>: bone. it is almost as if the mineral ="trms">world that had served as a substratum for the emergence of biological creatures was reasserting itself...



="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> genes as ="trms">sorting algorithms, are themselves ="trms">sorted out by selection pressures such as='lgc'>: -climates -predators -parasites


structure-generating processes ="trms">sort things (1) take heterogeneity ='lgc'>[collection of ="trms">materials='lgc'>---pebbles, genes, roles, etc.='lgc'>] (2) homogenize them ='lgc'>[through ="trms">sorting operations='lgc'>] (2) consolidate them (into more permanent state)

catalyst='lgc'>: a chemical substance capable of “recognizing” ="trms">specific ="trms">material and altering that ="trms">material's molecular state ='lgc'>--> now it reacts with certain substances with which it would not normally react.

catalyst provokes a meeting of two substances

autocatalytic loops

super="trms">position (="trms">interconnection of diverse overlapping elements),
catalysts,
stable patterns,
spatial ="trms">intervals,
sedimentation,
cooling magma,
threshold of crystallization,
vicious fluid,
molten ="trms">materials,
bifurcation,
="trms">densification,
intensification,
reinforcements,
injection,
nucleation events,
dislocations,
endogenous,
endogenous stable states,
chemical clocks,
aggregate,
consistency,
elementary atoms,
stratified structures,
="trms">interlocking (matching temporally),


="trms">species ='lgc'>--> (gene pool of a ...)='lgc'> = an organic stratified structure

stratifies structures involve simple form of ="trms">causal ="trms">relations='lgc'>---one arrow from cause to effect ='lgc'>[we can see this modality in the creation of institutions='lgc'>]


coal is the product of one of several types of mineralization that organic ="trms">matter can undergo, and submitted by “civilizations” to de="trms">posit intensive exploitation ='lgc'>--> flow of nonhuman energy ='lgc'>==> fuel its industrial revolution

industrial age='lgc'> = the crossing of a bifurcation where previous autocatalytic dynamics come to form a self-sustaining autocatalytic loop.

(both) industrial revolution and biological evolution, they lack ='lgc'>[rpgressive direction nor consistent drive toward complexification='lgc'>---some ="trms">species complexity while others simplify


cities as real transformers of ="trms">matter and energy
cities are open or dissipative (esraf اسراف) ="trms">systems, with ="trms">matter-energy flowing in and out continuously



(in autocatalytic loops) the t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger-flow ="trms">interactions='lgc'>: ="trms">interlocks a series of separately reproductive ="trms">systems into a single ="trms">interactive reproductive ="trms">system

anti="trms">market ='lgc'>---money='lgc'>--> mining regions ='lgc'>==> intensified coa extraction ='lgc'>==> iron production ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ='lgc'>[steam='lgc'>] mechanical energy ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> cotton textiles ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> flow of profits ='lgc'>===money='lgc'>==> experimentation with coal, iron, steam

="trms">skill / know-how='lgc'> = catalytic info
(info capable of bringing together and amplifying flow of energy and ="trms">materials)

economies of agglomeration (anbashtegi انباشتگی)

the law of diminishing returns (bazdeh nozuli بازده نزولی)
a point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested. (image)


illumination ='lgc'>--> coal gas
motorization ='lgc'>--> steam


knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is an input of production which exacts high transaction costs. only where patents are perfectly enforceable will information be allowed to flow through ="trms">markets, else anti="trms">markets will prefer to ="trms">internalize it into their hierarchies. one way a corporate hierarchy may ="trms">internalize knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is by funding a research laboratory.


at some point ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban ="trms">societies would have reached a point of saturation, and the intensification would have ceased. but electricity ="trms">simultaneously increased the flow of energy and the potential uses of that energy.


automated formal ="trms">systems ='lgc'>==> victory of analytical over ="trms">embodied knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (the self-taught inventor of the 19th century)
='lgc'>--> unbalance of power between informal and formal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


(factory='lgc'> = planned autocatalytic loop)


the ="trms">science of centralization
="prgrph">-powerful computers allow the centralized control of geographically dispersed activities='lgc'>---coordinate and monitor compliance with central plans ='lgc'>==> ="trms">internalization of anti="trms">market institutions


the fully coexistence of the autocatalytic loops='lgc'>:
the digital / the energetic / the ="trms">material
='lgc'>==> accumulation of hierarchical structures


are computers evolving in the direction of ="trms">routinization='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-eroding the combinatorial richness of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and making flows of information ever more sterile='qstn'>?

="large lg1" stl="font-size:139%">
future turns out to belong to hierarchies='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-human ="trms">history is a ="trms">narrative of ="trms">contingencies, not necessities, of missed opportunities to follow ="trms">different routes of development, not of a nonlinear succession of ways to convert energy, ="trms">matter, and information into cultural products.



='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]

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the gene tells the flesh='lgc'>: “you are a human” or “you are a...”
='strcls'>**the flesh does not know any organs, continues pulsing to its own rhythms

(how to understand) activities of processes in other spheres of reality

living creatures and their inorganic counterparts


(G. Simmons='lgc'>:) “the flow of energy and mineral nutrients through an eco="trms">system manifest themselves as actual ="trms">animals and plants of a particular ="trms">species.”


biomass='lgc'> = circulation of flesh

plants biting into the ="trms">system of solar radiation='lgc'>---capturing its sugars

in a sense “higher” ="trms">animals are just fancy decorations in an eco="trms">system
(decorative large predators)

eco="trms">system='lgc'> = succession of plant assemblages ='lgc'>==> stable states ='lgc'>==> climax

eco="trms">system='lgc'> = a blind groping from stable state to stable state in which each plant assemblage creates the conditions that stabilize the next one.


continental forest ='lgc'><='lgc'>--- stability ='lgc'>{the capacity to maintain a state with relatively minor ="trms">internal fluctuations='lgc'>}
islands ='lgc'><='lgc'>--- resilience ='lgc'>{the capacity to absorb major external and ="trms">internal fluctuations by switching between several alternative stable states='lgc'>}


cities ="trms">interaction with microorganisms

medieval cities ='lgc'>---islands='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>{-concentration of energies -low degree of ="trms">species heterogeneity (mainly humans)='lgc'>}

medieval European towns ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>---> isolated islands ='lgc'>{/heat /food-web /cultural='lgc'>}

cattle as storage devices
process of shortening and redirecting food chains


biomass ='lgc'>["="trms">natural” state='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> cooked biomass ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> processed through the “civilizing” power of fire='strcls'>*
='lgc'>{raw ='lgc'>=/= cooked='lgc'>} ='lgc'>==> legend/myth
='lgc'>--> the cultural ="trms">materials that accumulated unconsciously, ="trms">sorted out by the pressure of the parasites themselves='lgc'>---germs and humans formed a meshwork

food ='lgc'>~ flow of flesh

culture is not a completely separate sphere of reality, but instead mixes and blends with flows of organic (and even mineral) ="trms">materials.

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> flow of genetic ="trms">materials

gene / eco="trms">system
|              \
homogeneous ='lgc'>=/= heterogeneous

='strcls'>*genes tease out a form out of an active flesh

(genes ='lgc'>~) replicators began not only merely to exist, but to construct for themselves containers, vehicles for their continues existence.
="prgrph">-how these “replicators” created constructs out of flesh and bone ='lgc'>='lgc'>---> then how did ‘self’ emerged in this='qstn'>?

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%">
                (layers)
genotype  .../.../.../.../...  phenotype
   |             |                 |
info ="trms">coded | self organizing   |  adaptive traits
into genes | processes (stable) |  of a plant / ="trms">animal


human gene is variable du to='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{1-eco="trms">system 2-taboos='lgc'>}


="large lg5" stl="font-size:136%"> (ancient) migrations ='lgc'>: vehicle for the mechanism of evolution that today is producing the greatest evolutionary effect, allowing the incorporation of new genes into established gene pools, enhancing ="trms">intrapopulation and reducing ="trms">interpopulation variability.



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