Consider the Context
Everything is interconnected: the physical world, social systems, your innermost thoughts, the unrelenting logic of the computer—everything forms one immense, interconnected system of reality. Nothing exists in isolation; everything is part of the system and part of a larger context.
Because of that inconvenient fact of reality, small things can have unexpectedly large effects. That disproportionate effect is the hallmark of nonlinear systems, and in case you hadn’t noticed, the real world is decidedly nonlinear.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
➤ John Muir, 1911, My First Summer in the Sierra
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