Trajectory of Western Thought

Ordering has been shown to emerge unpredictably from disorder, leading to self-ordering, self-directing systems
From ecologies to economies, cells to societies, systems manifest as feedback-driven, self-organizing networks
These self-promoting networks enable systems to act in ways we can neither fully explain nor control
Even human systems self-direct in ways we do not intend or perceive, often debilitating both humans and Nature
This emergent ordering, and resulting purposeful system behaviors, pose a profoundly new 'way things happen'
The facts of these 'self-animating' networks reveal our catastrophic ignorance about 'how the world actually works'
SYSTEMS WE CREATE BECOME AUTONOMOUS AGENTS THAT MANIPULATE US FOR THEIR SELF-ASSERTION
The evidence even poses a basis for a scientifically factual, naturalistic spirituality
We are confronted with a new scientific reality that is incomprehensible to our mechanistic modern worldview

The Radical New Reality of Systems Science