Equation 14 · Humanity Has Always Been a Human–Technology System
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decision-relevant knowledge rather than stored content. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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This gives an epistemic version of the cumulative-culture recurrence. Let be decision-relevant knowledge rather than stored content:
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