Power’s function is transferring reduced complexity, institutionalized through its code.

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• Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.85)
• Dispositional words like strength and ability are part of the power-code itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Power flows as reduced complexity transmitted decision-to-decision via its code (similarity 0.83)
• Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.82)
• Power transfers reduced complexity and grows more critical as the world complexifies (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.80)
• Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.80)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
• Power flows when coded, like money, transmitting reduced complexity (similarity 0.79)