Some thinkers saw the pattern before the language to name it existed. They did not form schools among themselves. Schrödinger did not coordinate with Maturana. Bateson did not design his work to fit with Friston, who arrived four decades later. Bogdanov published the principles of general systems theory in Russian between 1912 and 1917; Bertalanffy arrived at the same principles independently without having read him — Capra documents this and calls it difficult to understand. That is not an intellectual tradition. It is independent convergence without communication. This paper argues that artificial intelligence is not demonstrating that information changed — it is demonstrating that the thermodynamic rules that have always governed information are now visible because there is a system with sufficient processing capacity to see them without the filter of disciplinary loyalty. The same institutional mechanism that booed Galileo, blocked Leibniz for a century, and suppressed Bogdanov politically is documented today in Latin American academic endogamy rates (70% at elite institutions, Capes 2024), in peer review bias (28% higher acceptance when author affiliation is visible, PMC 2021), and in Wikidata's own acknowledgment in February 2026 that certain knowledge has been and is being structurally marginalized. Sixth preprint in the author's independent series. Available in Spanish and English. Available at carlosravello.com
Carlos Eduardo Ravello Joo (Mon,) studied this question.