More often than not, the essential culture of that organization retains a remarkable amount of consistency over long periods of time, even though the underlying cast of characters is constantly changing and new outside forces are continually introduced. We see a similar effect in the human body: typical cells are replaced on scales of months, yet individuals retain a very consistent and coherent form across decades. Despite a wide variety of both internal and external forces, somehow the decentralized system controlling the trillions of ever changing cells in your body allows you to be easily
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