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>>15389991

Cyclicality, feedback, oscillation, yesss. Perhaps THE deepest mechanism of nature, straight from intracellular signalling to whole biosphere dynamics. This is very important to understand but initially hard to "grasp" in its entirety and universality. It is ofc not entirely "cyclical" as in perfect repetition, there's always a cut, a point of apparent discontinuity. A moment of catastrophy, a selective sweep, a Ragnarök event. The "reason" is actually simple, we're after all not dealing with a static system here, very much the opposite! Complex structures which stabilize and replicate themselves at the "expense" of the environment, running along the axis of entropic gradients ... this is semi-stability, if it would "calcify" into a fully stable form it would be dead, lifeless. Instead, it "rotates" or rather oscillates (if thought linearized in the time gradient) around this axis of its own (in)stability.

>>15124669

>(Not an approximation, a real circle)

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