e.g. technology x has a 10% chance of making it easier to communicate with each other, and I would rather live 9.5 years in a world where I can communicate with my family more closely vs 10 years in the current world
Claim: The most livable cities balance efficiency (structured access) and serendipity (unplanned, meaningful experiences), especially in a post-COVID context where work decentralizes and everyday experience becomes central to urban value.
Claim: Many complex system design problems involve stakeholders with divergent or incommensurable preferences; instead of aiming for total consensus, participatory processes can yield partially ordered sets of solutions that reflect trade-offs transparently and support informed co-evolution.
Most participatory frameworks focus on facilitation and dialogue, but lack formal structures for comparing competing preferences or compositions of solutions.
Claim: Learning is not just information accumulation but a structured, layered process of composing knowledge fragments and abstracting over them; category theory offers a formal language for modeling these nested, compositional epistemic transformations.
Most learning theories are either cognitive (mental models) or statistical (Bayesian update), and rarely formalize how knowledge transforms across abstraction layers.