As per a cool book, pithily, slightly modified: contingency, path-dependently, becomes subsequent “necessity,” for better and worse, because constraint is both enabling and limiting. Luckily can often proactively and preemptively unroll some path-dependencies hot-swap style.
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Two books actually:
Incomplete Nature by Terrence Deacon
and
Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings by William C. Wimsatt
(maybe fun to skim )
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getting the latter because I am just so charmed by the title
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Interesting I like the first title better


