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Order and chaos are not understood first, objectively (as things or objects), and then personified. That would only be the case if we perceived objective reality first, and then inferred intent and purpose. But that isn’t how perception operates, despite our preconceptions. Perception of things as tools, for example, occurs before or in concert with perception of things as objects. We see what things mean just as fast or faster than we see what they are.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)
Emergence is a characteristic of complex systems where things happen that set other things into motion.
What Is Submerging?
Nora Bateson
To Conan O’Brien: “You look like the film negative of ‘Django Unchained.’
Is Martin Short the Greatest Talk-Show Guest of All Time?
newyorker.com
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