Decentralise: Decentralise and diversify, ‣.

Distribute (spatially): distributed neural representations, distribution in infrastructure, etc. makes systems reliable.

Disintermediate: where possible, provide direct access. The purpose of mediation is to manage the flow (reduce the volume), not the information itself.

Disaggregate: units of information should be as small as possible.

Disintegrate: entities in a network are not ‘components’ of one another.

Democratise: autonomy + Diversity.

Dynamize: it's only through the process of change that a network learns. (Or moving through the reference frame: see Humans learn only within reference frames.)

De-segregate: learning is not a separate activity. The same tools that are used in practice are used to learn. This is an important distinction between brain intelligence and AI with separate train and inference stages.

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References

https://www.downes.ca/presentation/547

https://www.downes.ca/post/72028 I define Openness as one of four elements of what I call 'the semantic condition'. The other elements are autonomy, Diversity, and interactivity. The semantic condition, in turn, is what informs the design of networks to enable them to learn. Networks - and therefore, people and technology and systems and the rest - that embody the semantic condition will be responsive to and adapt to the environment, and hence be resistant to cascade phenomena leading to stasis and network death. That's a lot to pack into a single paragraph, but I've written about all that elsewhere.