See The Big Picture: Interdependent Ecosystems

Biosphere and Infosphere as coupled flows

Ecosystems View: Interdependent Systems of Information Flows

The virtual world introduces a new ecosystem to the global ecosystems, this represents a paradigm shift in technology that has transitioned from static control-flow systems for logic processing to a distributed system where decision-making and information processing are moving to edge-based paradigm where processing can use local contexts and reduce latency. In human systems, this means that humans with laptops, tablets, cell-phones must learn literacy for wise decision-making agency and accountability.

This fundamental paradigm shift is at odds with AI models that employ black-box processes. LLM's used by children, surveillance, The virtual world has material, embodied impacts in terms of trust, energy, water, waste.... Neuroscience advances using AI systems have helped highlight the structure of The complexity of this expanded world model increases difficulty of decision-making for human systems.

Midjourney Prompt vintage atlas watercolor of two interlocked rings around a dark globe, left ring painted as oceans, forests, rivers (biosphere) with flowing blue-green water and energy currents, right ring painted as luminous token-streams and filament networks (infosphere) with gold flecks for attention and soft silver threads for trust, subtle arrows suggested by brushstrokes indicating circulation between the rings, faint cartographic grid ghosted beneath, serene and wordless

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