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ᴀᴢʟ@aaronzlewis• about 6 years ago

in a complex social system, there can be a conspiracy without conspirators the emergent behavior of a system sometimes looks like a highly coordinated conspiracy, even if no one is actually pulling strings at the top we don’t have good language to talk about this phenomenon

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago
Replying to @aaronzlewis

@aaronzlewis synchronicity https://t.co/YO2bfmOTez

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andrew (in CS teacher mode) 🌹@__drewface• about 6 years ago
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@aaronzlewis @LamaAlRajih

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 1 year ago
Replying to @aaronzlewis

@aaronzlewis The strings pull themselves.https://t.co/jSd7JO2cBA

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Balaji@balajis• about 1 year ago

Ants are dumb. But ant colonies are smart. And meta-organisms like colonies arise repeatedly. Because if they don't somehow coordinate, they die. That doesn't require any conspiracy theory. Just evolutionary theory. https://t.co/anm0UjQZ0f

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