conservation law metaphors don't apply because there's no conservation of relationships, but ordering does carry tangible value
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One measure is relative persistence of social elites across economic eras. They imprint their social patterns onto new econ-canvases
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The {A, T, C, G} alphabet and protein codon dictionary is stable...
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Proposal: ∫_space ∫_time (|light|+|dark|) = constant. Views restricted in space or time look like creative destruction.
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.So viewed in scope 'Rome' you have rise and fall of Rome. Viewed in scope of Europe center-periphery canvas, light+dark is conserved
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Something like that. Civilization being defined in some sort of Kolmogorov complexity terms as net algorithmic capability of society.
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