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- Dec 2023
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history is always the result of a lot of causes coming together you know 00:29:22 you have this metaphor of the chain of events and this is a terrible metaphor for there is no chain of events a chain of events imagines that every event is a link connected to one previous event and 00:29:36 to one subsequent event so there is a war there is one cause for the war and there will be one consequence it's never like that in history every event is more like a tree there is an entire system of 00:29:50 roots that came together to create it and it has a lot of fruits with lots of different influences
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for: insight - history - complexity, bad metaphor - chain of events
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insight: complexity and history
- chain of events is a bad metaphor for things that occur in history
- the complexity of history is that many causes come together too being about an event
- likewise, when that event occurs, it is the cause of many different consequences
- linear vs systems thinking
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adjacency between
- history
- emptiness
- Indra's net
- adjacency statement
- history reflects emptiness
- Indra's net extended into historical events
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