We're getting into tricky territory with words :) I think it's important to make a distinction between clever emergent processes that people are involved in bu

We're getting into tricky territory with words :) I think it's important to make a distinction between clever emergent processes that people are involved in but aren't in control of and those that people made and are in control in. The distinction is vague, and arguable. I'm generally pretty down on systems (politics and economics are really burdened by these) which overreach by overstating our understanding of things. Just because a theory is the best we've got, doesn't mean it's good enough to be made operational. When people start getting grandiose with their social and political theories I think of 18th century surgery.