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The sand pile model
Simplifying Complexity
The Self-Organized Criticality of Per Back
Per back called this self-organized criticality. Can you talk about what he means by that? It's not like there's one DEO sand particle that's saying, okay, everybody around me do this and the ones at the bottom stay there. No, the system is kind of organizing itself. And in many ways, you can imagine something like a heart. For example, the heart is fed energy by the body. Doesn't feed it. Just feeds it energy. Yet it manages to organize itself into some kind of regularity.
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