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Our section did a "brain drain" today on "evolving systems."
Here are the terms that emerged:
stories, parts, confusion
change, space, Karina
conversation, enthalpy (thermodynamics; movement of/change in energy), movement
Serendip, biomes, caribou moss
monkey, universal, impermanence
humans, storytelling, change
change, non-individual, collective
change, growth, turtles
brain, biology, the world
eternal ("never stop changing"), model, direction
change, progress, dynamic
change, unstopping, uncontrollable
time, organize, sequence

Then a few more phrases emerged out of our conversation about these terms:
inevitable (?)
random, self-organizing, possibilities
subconscious/conscious improvement in our writing
"a conversation about change that in turn changed us"
recognizing the tension between the infinity (of the world & our stories about it)
and the finiteness of any given story we might tell
"getting more comfortable with uncertainty"
questions--> questions--> questions
interpretations/connections
"a mental workout: an exercise in abstraction," achieved
"by putting concepts in different contexts/environments"