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Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems

COMPLEXITY

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The Importance of Mind Training Practices in the Intensity of Modern Life

The greater the variety of perturbations a system may be subjected to, the more it needs to remain in control. Daniel Kahneman's famous preprint on how optimal policies tend to seek power is about navigating that kind of uncertainty and being able to make decisions across time scales. This sounds a lot like what you hear Buddhist teachers saying about the importance of mind training practices in the pace of modern life.

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