Another example: the common meaning of words. These strings of letters only mean what we want them to mean. You'd think it would lead to chaos without a central authority but it doesn't, it's perfectly stable. In fact more stable over time than it would be if centrally specified, because it is adaptive to change.
Another example: truth itself. We might not be able to nail it down in a written document or prove it mathematically but it will emerge unavoidably in a community as a tight consensus.
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[ 8.7 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadAnother example: truth itself. We might not be able to nail it down in a written document or prove it mathematically but it will emerge unavoidably in a community as a tight consensus.