Multiple complex systems (Earth with molten core, oceans, moon) can be accurately modeled by focusing on a single parameter (mass) much like Newton did; similarly, systems that reach criticality show universal behavior regardless of physical details—universality means the specific material details don't matter.

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Similarly here, there are people that have looked at these phenomena that go to the critical state, in this case it's self-organized criticality, is it brings itself there, and what they find is that there's this universal behavior where it doesn't even really matter what the subparts are, you just get the behavior that's the exact same

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