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This process of information accumulation and modification is a probabilistic computation. The reason it works is simple. Very small changes are usually not at all improbable. The smallest possible changes are of the yes/no, up/down, either/or type. Such choices are typically characterized by 50/50 odds of one or the other possibility happening, or of one being better than the other. In contrast, undirected large changes are wildly improbable.
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
Light is the storehouse of the energy of thinking Mind.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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