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22/ A principle called [Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)) gets at why systems must be desynchronized in order to embody the variety required to thrive in complex environments.
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"When they're in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they're not able to filter out what's not relevant to their current goal," said Wagner, an associate professor of psychology. "That failure to filter means they're slowed down by that irrelevant information."
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