Boundaries are necessary for differentiation.

  • Boundaries are necessary for differentiation.
    • Without a boundary, the differences diffuse.
    • A boundary has two dimensions:
      • 1) What is the pressure gradient?
        • Do people want to join or leave the inner thing?
      • 2) What is the valence of the boundary?
        • How do people feel about people on the other side?
    • The latter is what makes a boundary get entrenched, making it so people close to the boundary push away from it.
      • Leaving a charged no-mans land, in proportion to how valent it already is.