You make a compelling argument that synergism is inherently more efficient than machinism because it violates the rules of organization--this is powerful and naturalistic. But then your lines about ethical commitments come off as completely arbitrary to me. IMO the power of cybernetics is that it obliterates the subject-object distinction, but that sword cuts both ways. The machinists are applauding the death of the subject by its reduction to the machine (largely true, there will never be a more powerful explanatory frame), and meanwhile you are advancing the death of the object by recourse to constructivism, and the nearly mystical reality of the organic and ineffably complex (also true, and likely the most important 'truism' there will ever be). You say you want to work with the God of efficiency, but it sounds more like you want to make a pittance of acknowledgement so that He will allow you to shape the world the way you want it to become. What instead does it look like to treat the situation PURELY on the grounds of nihilistic, organizational laws?
You make a compelling argument that synergism is inherently more efficient than machinism because it violates the rules of organization--this is powerful and naturalistic. But then your lines about ethical commitments come off as completely arbitrary to me. IMO the power of cybernetics is that it obliterates the subject-object distinction, but that sword cuts both ways. The machinists are applauding the death of the subject by its reduction to the machine (largely true, there will never be a more powerful explanatory frame), and meanwhile you are advancing the death of the object by recourse to constructivism, and the nearly mystical reality of the organic and ineffably complex (also true, and likely the most important 'truism' there will ever be). You say you want to work with the God of efficiency, but it sounds more like you want to make a pittance of acknowledgement so that He will allow you to shape the world the way you want it to become. What instead does it look like to treat the situation PURELY on the grounds of nihilistic, organizational laws?