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Hopecraft: Directing the mind towards future goals in an attempt to rebalance psychological normalcy in accordance with Darwinian circuitry.

The Fifth Science

Exurb1a

The utility of this currency became by time and experience so evident as never afterwards to be much disputed; so that it grew soon to fifty-five thousand pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, building, and inhabitants all the while increasing, tho' I now think there are limits beyond which the quantity may be hurtful.

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Joh...

The first mechanism that contributes to the stickiness of information involves the idea of thermodynamic potentials. Once again this sounds complicated, but it is not. What we need to know here is that the steady states of physical systems can be described as minimums of mathematical functions, which are known as thermodynamic potentials.

Why Information Grows

Cesar Hidalgo

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