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The sand pile model

Simplifying Complexity

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The Importance of History in a System

When you drop a greater sand, it'll just land on the side of the tower. You can drop another piece and nothing will happen either. But then eventually, you get an avalanche. How big or how small that avalanche is going to be totally dependent on the slope of that particular sand. And so history matters in a system that is on average in equilibrium,. sort of in an equilibrium - yet it's alive somehow.

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