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conservation law metaphors don't apply because there's no conservation of relationships, but ordering does carry tangible value
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inertia makes for a better physical metaphor than energy conservation. you can reconfigure a ship in flight easier than redirecting it
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the genome is a great analogy - you have stable elements and levels of patterning that change at different rates
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there is no fundamental reason that the world cannot be civilised everywhere at once, which is why i'm pushing against "conservation"
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