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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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The fatal flaw
Humans and our behavior cannot be reduced to a linear equation. How we and our lives unfold and evolve is not linear, so fitting our dreams, behaviors, and limitations into a neat equation is reductionist. We’re highly complex creatures moving through a highly complex and interdependent world. We’re constantly changing and in transit
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Chaos theory. You may have heard the expression: the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas. It comes from the title of a paper19 delivered in 1972 by MIT’s Edward Lorenz, who began his career as a meteorologist. Chaos theory applies to systems in which each of two properties hold: The systems are dynamic, meaning that
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