Organizational terraforming: recursion

( In 1998, I was writing about the patterns of society and organization. In 2012, guess what I'm still doing... )

[1] Systems with no direct perception of their own can be said to indirectly "notice" things to the degree that the selectively encourage parts that conform to the thing in question. For instance, evolution "notices" something has a higher survival value simply by that organisms that make use of the pattern outlast those that don't.

[2] And then this begins to look an awful lot like the Viable Systems Model, even though I didn't set about to try to recreate it.