[FRIAM] George on "Symmetry breaking"

[Santafe]

I did want to call one thing out, though; 

> On Jul 24, 2025, at 8:54, Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> NICK ASKS: I have argued with my complexity colleagues that their use of the term is extremely unfortunate and that they ought to use the term structure formation instead. Can you go up and down both sides of that argument?

I believe that parses as: I don’t understand what you mean, so I take it that you probably don’t actually mean something.  And therefore my response to what you are saying is an improvement on what you are saying.

Very human impulse, but I think an impulse that one often regrets not fighting off.  Since I commit this error about once a day, it is never far from my mind. 

Eric


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