That’s what pure hedgehogs do: getting very detail-oriented by reducing the cauliflower to limit where fractal geometry gives way to the next lower level of organization (cellular). They destroy what they can’t grok, to reduce to a perfect “one big thing” lower-level idea.
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My gloss on that is: under normal conditions stack thinking in a fractal world causes fractal map-territory errors that self-correct via foxes and hedgehogs serving as checks and balances on each other. That’s complex systems homeostasis.
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But in weird conditions, they compound fractally, collapsing at all levels. The widening-gyre effect. Hedgehogs become part of problem by getting destructive. Foxes give up in frozen inaction. The system gets ungovernable. Self-correction homeostasis breaks down, all unravels.
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The solution is to “think entangled, act spooky” as I recently argued. To arrest and reverse a fractal collapse you have to think in fractal-native scale-free ways. How do you do that in practice? I don’t know yet. Working on it.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/11/think-entangled-act-spooky/ …
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