Reading Response Week 4

Complex systems an Emergence seem to go hand in hand sort of smaller parts coming together in order to form a greater structure that does not reflect the micro. The first thing that comes to mind is the human body, although we are made up of millions of cells we do not look like a cell. Self organization is intriguing in a sense that i think of a living organism but there are non-organic self-organizing systems all around us for example Carlos Castellanos Biopoesis. When thinking about ontology is can all get very ambiguous and abstract as nobody can really prove that they themselves exist much less the world around them. Although, this train of thought does lead one into different realms of the mind that might not get traveled to very often. The way Andrew Pickering writes about the subject is a good example of the thoughts and ideas that may come from tanking an ontological perspective and integrating it into your own art practice.