> At the end of the day, that really is just it, but the collective behavior is something else entirely.
Exactly. It’s not to say that neat descriptions like this are the end of the story (or even the beginning of it). If they were, there would be no need for this entire field of study.
But they are cool, and can give you a really clear conceptualisation of something that can appear more like a sum of disjoint observations and ad hoc tricks than a discipline based on a few deep principles.
Exactly. It’s not to say that neat descriptions like this are the end of the story (or even the beginning of it). If they were, there would be no need for this entire field of study.
But they are cool, and can give you a really clear conceptualisation of something that can appear more like a sum of disjoint observations and ad hoc tricks than a discipline based on a few deep principles.