Morpheus comments on Information in circulation is self-organised critical. Small changes in environment can make large, discontinuous changes in the information space.

[Morpheus]

I just watched the Veritasiums video. The forest fire simulation really made self-organized criticality click for me, when the sand pile analogy absolutely hadn’t (though to be fair I had only read the vague description in Introduction to Complex Systems, which is absolutely inadequate compared to just seeing a simulation).

[puffymist]

Of course! Self-organised criticality is a system dynamics property, not a system statics property. Thanks for prompting me to realise this!

I’ve therefore edited the final paragraph to say that I highly recommend the video format or simulations.