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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics

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Is There Such a Thing as Jupiter?

There's a movement towards saying, things sort of exist, but hang on, they're changing. So you could say planets exist, but if you look in a longer time, you can't say whell there is such a thing as jupiter through all the aeons of the solar system. And so there's something you mention called process philosophy, dating from alfe north whitehead and before. For me, i'm thrilled and amused this brings us back to ancient chinese philosophy. I just want to mention that i'm a huge fan of taoist philosophy, and in that philosophy, they'd be reluctant to say any pattern is there for good. In fact, everything

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