Picture a tree. At every instant, every branch tip in the tree makes a decision: keep growing linearly, spawn a new branch, or stop growing altogether. How the

Picture a tree. At every instant, every branch tip in the tree makes a decision: keep growing linearly, spawn a new branch, or stop growing altogether. How the tip makes the decision is unknown, but in the end the tree is perfectly balanced. Had excessively many tips decided to branch (“all my ancestor tips branched, if I don’t then all their work was for nothing”), the tree would be far too tangled and nutrients would be wasted developing far too many branches which all must compete against each other to secure more nutrients. On the contrary, if too many tips decide not to develop (“this dismal nitch is is devoid of all nourishment, progressing further would be a waste of resources, I should just end it now”), the tree has no chance of persisting through a thick undercoat to reach the riches above. Point is, every individual entity “goes with their gut” and the final product is beauty. Too many try to meta-analyze it, maximize their own gains, etc, and the final product cripples. Idk, maybe I’m just stoned at the nail salon. :)