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··· 1 1 # Emergence 2 2 3 3 - ![[Quotes#^620ab0]] 3 3 + > Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior. Andrew Hunt. 4 4 5 5 When things interact, they often birth new, unpredictable forms. **The sum total of a system is more than its competent parts**. E.g: biological [[evolution]], Conway's Game of Life, Wikipedia, Minecraft. 6 6 7 7 - <!-- markdownlint-disable-next-line MD033 --> 8 7 <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_ZuWbX-CyE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 9 8 10 9 You can't top-down plan emergent [[systems]], but you can provoke them into being. [Here are some attributes that emergent systems often have](http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/provoking-emergence/):

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··· 13 13 - It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. Randy Pausch. ^1b91f3 14 14 - There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker. 15 15 - Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. Clay Christiansen. ^c63c02 16 16 - - Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior. Andrew Hunt. ^620ab0 17 16 - Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 18 17 - You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for. Judea Pearl. 19 18 - [The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven](https://youtu.be/RPicL1AWrs8?list=WL).