2-1d 'Ecosystem' & 'Thermodynamics' & 'Double-entry bookkeeping' - Everything is connected, there is no free lunch

“In nature, nothing exists alone.” – Rachel Carson

I don’t think cultural unification via globalization—i.e., tendency to be ‘mono-culturized’ by the widespread use of commonly used language such as English (e.g., see Daniel Everett p. 276)—is inherently bad because otherwise you will not benefit from economic network effects.

• 5-2 What counts cannot be counted

• Not everything is connected causallymultiversedevelop

• 1-2g2s7d A history has to be explained in multiversal terms. The true explanation of what happened involves many other instances of me.

• 1-2g2s8 The unobserved parts of the wider phenomenon have in no way affected what we observe, yet they are essential to its explanation. Causation doesn’t exhaust explanation.

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• 10-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolation

  • Ecosystem ≠ Synechism
    • Synechism is more about 連続性 while ecosystem is about 連帯性develop

• 1-1a1 We don’t necessarily have to think hierarchically (i.e., in files and folders)

  • 1-1a1.1 More precisely, we think hierarchically but it’s dynamic and subject to change
    • 2-1e Everything is connected in a complex way