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A counter example from societies and software that seems to grow and scale well are biological systems like tissues.

Maybe we could design better software and better teams using patterns from biology instead of the romans of old.

Also the idea of architecture (and discardable scaffolding) being important. To build a roman arch you need scaffolding in place until you can drop in the keystone. To build a (mammalian) body you need scaffolding in the form of a womb until the body is self-sufficient.'

There's also the matter of different types of architecture at different levels of scale. For cellular biology the foundational properties are statistical mechanics and physical chemistry. What are the foundational properties of computation?

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