Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026But the team’s large-scale analysis—drawing on billions of uses of more than 20,000 words and diverse real-world texts—demonstrates that this framework is flawed. 100
Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Using modern computational methods, the researchers—with support from the US National Science Foundation, Google, MassMutual, and other funders—identified a different set of underlying dimensions. 100
Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The researchers show that meaning is best described by three independent dimensions: power (weak vs. powerful), danger (safe vs. dangerous), and structure (ordered vs. chaotic). 100
