“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.” — Manuel de Landa Copy Share Image
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share
“The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains… — Manuel de Landa Copy Share
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa Copy Share
