"As the natural sciences have developed to encompass increasingly s, scientific rationality has become ever more statistical, or probabilistic. The deterministic classical mechanics of the enlightenment was revolutionized by the near-equilibrium statistical mechanics of late 19th century atomists, by quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, and by the far-from-equilibrium complexity theorists of the later 20th century. Mathematical , information theory, and quantitative social sciences compounded the trend. Forces, objects, and natural types were progressively dissolved into statistical distributions: heterogeneous clouds, entropy deviations, s, gene frequencies, noise-signal ratios and redundancies, dissipative structures, and complex systems at the edge of chaos."
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Nick Land, "Statistical Mentality" (2011)
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