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The more complex, and hence improbable, something seems, the greater the amount of specialized information needed to produce it. The form of this specialized information is variously recognized as blueprints, recipes, genes (i.e., DNA or RNA), or more generally as instructions. Instructions come in many forms, but a simple definition might be as follows: “Specific encoded information having the property that when used to sequentially modify a second system, the final outcome is predetermined and somehow advantageous or desirable to whoever or whatever created the instructions.”
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
In summary, the cue triggers a craving, which motivates a response, which provides a reward, which satisfies the craving and, ultimately, becomes associated with the cue. Together, these four steps form a neurological feedback loop—cue,
Atomic Habits
James Clear
It wasn’t the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.
Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson
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