Most things aren't trees

It is tempting to put things in boxes, and those boxes in other boxes. Such a tree gives a sense of order, but it’s an illusion. Most things are semilattices. And Semilattices are fertile ground for Complexity

Related: Deleuze’s idea of rhizomes

References: A City is not a Tree - Christopher Alexander

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