I came across this quote today:
“Inconsistency is part of flexibility, of nature's strategy
of keeping options open. Animals that cannot adapt to new environments will not
survive the incessant fluctuations of climate. Judicial systems that cannot
grow and change with our society's evolving problems will become rigid
anachronisms that promote social earthquakes. Consistency and rationality are
human virtues in dealing with certain potentially orderly situations; we make
excellent use of them in engineering and legal systems, but we shouldn't expect
living systems to have made them centerpiece of their operation in a changing, unpredictable
world.”
William Calvin
The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure
of Consciousness
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