Pattern = Blindfold
Tools for Survival
• • We survive by naming shapes.
Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on. That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks. The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade. Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks. Useful for survival, fatal for discovery.
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