Vocabulary

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"Cybernetics and your fishbowls"

COMPLEX: a whole made up of complicated or interrelated parts

CODIFY: to systematize or classify

PHENOMENOLOGY: the study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy

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"Please fact-check"

ABSTRACT: expressing a quality apart from an object

EVOLUTION: descent with modification from preexisting species

EMERGENCE: the act or an instance of emerging

APPEARANCE: external show; outward aspect

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"Complex adaptive systems"

IMPROVISE: to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously; to make, invent, or arrange offhand

ART: skill acquired by experience, study, or observation

COMPLEX: a whole made up of complicated or interrelated parts

ADAPTIVE: providing, contributing to, or marked by adaptation

SYSTEM: a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole

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"It was good to see you again"

LAYER: different levels; to separate into layers

EVOKE: to call forth or up; to re-create imaginatively

DIVERSE: differing from one another; composed of distinct or unlike elements

IMAGE: a visual representation of something; a mental picture or impression of something

INTER-SUBJECTIVE: involving or occurring between separate conscious minds

SPACE: a period of time; an area

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"Looking at ourselves again"

Labyrinth: a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys

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"Reflecting on one’s history"

SYSTEMATIC: of, relating to, or common to a system

INTERPLAY: interaction

REFLECTIVE: capable of reflecting light, images, or sound waves

CENTRALITY: the quality or state of being central

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"Thoughts, the morning after thanksgiving"

INTERSECTION: a place or area where two or more things intersect

DIMENSION: measure in one direction

PERSPECTIVE: a mental view or prospect; the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed

DISTANCE: spatial remoteness

FOOTNOTE: a note or reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text in a printed page

CENTER: a point, area, person, or thing that is most important in relation to an indicated activity, interest, or condition

COMPELLING: demanding attention; forceful; convincing

LIVING: having life; exhibiting the life or motion of nature

TROPE: a word or expression used in figurative sense

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“Voguing”

STRIKING: attracting attention or notice through unusual or conspicuous qualities

POSE: to set forth or offer for attention or consideration

FLOW: to issue or move in a stream

MOVING: marked by or capable of movement

SOCIAL: marked by or passed in pleasant companionship with friends or associates

ENTITY: something that has separate and distinct existence and objective or conceptual reality

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“MUTATION, MOTION”

MUTATION: a significant and basic alteration

MOTION: an act, process, or instance of changing place

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"creating social memories and inter-subjective spaces"

Memory: the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms

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“Coming close to the end 1”

MEDIA: a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression

ECOLOGY: a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments