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The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.

— John Henry Holland Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995)

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Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

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Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

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The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

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This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

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