At a certain point in time it has to have a paradigm shift or it doesn't work anymore:
Different materials, different, tools, etc. - just different
45/n
Something has got to give something has got to be different.
A whale can grow so large compared to elephant because it is in (and has to be in) the ocean.
46/n
Instead maybe try a smallish system then, run a new smallish system in a similar way e.g. cells
Sometimes duplication allows things to evolve differently.
47/n
Consider the 50 states.
Or better yet consider the near 200 countries
Or even better again consider all the individual towns and cities spread across them.
48/n
To close with an apparent paraphrasing of Dr. Dwanye Beck
Do you want 600lbs of lover?
It depends is it four 150lb lovers or one 600lb lover?
49/n
Put another way:
Do you want a 100kg of boulder in one blow or 1kg pebbles spread across a long span of time?
There are tools that people bring to bear that become selective mechanisms over the possible objects of study and so we get this hugely biased sample of what we consider normal/regular/typical.
2/n