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I think this represents a form of Minority Rule. Energy gets concentrated and crystallized into a few SISO narratives with cheering factions. Then the map increasingly diverges from the territory as Politics The Mind Killer feedback loops take over.
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Is it possible to explain as a preference for linear vs systems thinking? We think in lines, not networks.
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You are really on to something, but I think the main effect is that (some) individual humans may indeed grasp multiple problems, but when they try to cooperate the narrative simplifies every cooperator.
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This is why a lot of managed ecological systems crash once in the hands of human decisionmaking; it's why Holistic Management was created but even that has a long way to go to get on the right side of emergence (joke! it has no sides!)
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