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Emergence: When many simple objects interact with each other, they can form a system that has qualities that the objects themselves don’t. Examples: neurons creating consciousness, traders creating the stock-market, simple mathematical rules creating “living” patterns. https://t.co/3lPd3JEhuB
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@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
> *“I think there's this idea that people have of going to Europe or whatever and finding yourself, and I think that's a load of shit. I don't think you can go find yourself in a nightclub in Budapest or anything like that. But something that I did realize is once you get out of your home environment, for me, getting out of Atlanta and going to... I didn't know anybody in Barcelona when I got there, that was my first stop. It kind of separates the parts of you that were a byproduct of your environment, where you fit in and the social hierarchy of where you are. And then the stuff that's left is what you actually like. So I don't think you find yourself when you're going in hostel-hopping, but you do get a lot better idea of what stuff you did was actually stuff you wanted to do or what stuff you value.”*
The Infinite Loops Guide To... Agency - Infinite Loops
Substack
Reality is messy and disorganised. Frameworks are anything but. Frameworks promise to bring order to reality in pleasing ways. They blunt the chaos and give you buckets with which to categorise your observations. Frameworks are so compelling to the human mind because the mind is a sense-making tool, and sense-making tools abhor not making sense of information. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that frameworks *feel* like they are the Right Way To Think About Things™.
*[Reality Without Frameworks](https://commoncog.com/reality-without-frameworks/), by Cedric Chin*
The Paradox of Mental Models
Richard Hughes-Jones
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