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A property of complex bottom-up unconscious emergent systems is that they seem to get named by a coalition of their more top-down and/or self-conscious systems. Internally, the system doesn’t even have a sufficiently integrated consciousness to choose a name.
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Three examples: Capitalism (coined by Marxists), India (coined by Greeks), Allopathy (once popular term for mainstream medicine coined by homeopaths)
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Is the lack of integration son of lack of utility for having one in the first place? Or is the interplay between emergence and unconsciousness creating blockades?
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I've always found it odd that countries have names for themselves + the names others call them. Might make sense before first contact but after that, seems kind of rude. Like if I just decided to start calling you Rupert and even after you told me Venkat, still called you Rupert.
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