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Idk the central metaphor of the article reads as legible and correct to me. The take home message is that it seems complex-but-stable systems must spend a lot of complexity on achieving hysteresis across scales, and the degradation of such systems can cascade into failure modes unexpectedly. Does that help?

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Seems to me the central idea is to pay attention, especially when someone hits their head. Get them to medical care pronto and if you can't, give them an aspirin, put them to bed and check on them periodically. Did I say "get them to medical care"?

I mean your advice is correct but if you choose to only look through half of the binoculars you're not going to get depth perception.

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