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| + | //But even as the influence of decentralized ideas grows, there is a | ||
| + | deep-seated resistance to such ideas. At some deep level, people seem | ||
| + | to have strong attachments to centralized ways of thinking. When people see patterns in the world (like a flock of birds), they often assume | ||
| + | that there is some type of centralized control (a leader of the flock). According to this way of thinking, a pattern can exist only if someone (or | ||
| + | something) creates and orchestrates the pattern. Everything must have | ||
| + | a single cause, and ultimate controlling factor. The continuing resistance to evolutionary theories is an example: many people still insist | ||
| + | that someone or something must have explicitly designed the complex, | ||
| + | orderly structures that we call Life.// - Resnick, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. (1994) | ||
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| + | //No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.// John Donne | ||
