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Keeping Homeostasis in Complex Systems
When you have a highly ordered object, never mind whether it's alive or not, it needs a way of protecting itself. And that's where ego comes in. The more complicated a system becomes, the more sophisticated the ego structures become. Until eventually, like inhumans, it starts to develop a sense of self awareness and self reflection. So let me give you some examples of these. What am i talking about when i mean collective ego? It's a lot of stuff. Let's make it very concrete. I'm talking about your family. You can't just go in there with an ice pck and muck around and change a few neurons here and there and think that everything's