Peter Cochrane: Pattern matching: The strengths - and weaknesses - of habit

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Standard patterns of behaviour and predictability makes goods and services easier and cheaper to produce, but at what potential cost? Peter Cochrane considers the issue

Our innate habituality is almost ‘Schrodinger like' (his cat being simultaneously dead and alive): it is both good and bad at the same time in almost equal measure. Having routines, regularity a...

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