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Walking upright, we are told, is the threshold of what made us human.

The authorities could be alerted if the crowd movement slowed down or if the crowd density moved beyond a desired threshold.

We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments.

And at each threshold, the going gets tougher.

And we've crossed our first threshold.

So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.

And I believe we count as a threshold in this great story.

We believe that big history will be a vital intellectual tool for them, as Daniel and his generation face the huge challenges and also the huge opportunities ahead of them at this threshold moment in the history of our beautiful planet.

There could be non-linearities, threshold effects.

They receive inputs from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

Now we may find that there are places that are really, really dense and still hold onto their cars, but the reality is that, by and large, what we see when we get a lot of people together with the right conditions is a threshold effect, where people simply stop driving as much, and increasingly, more and more people, if they're surrounded by places that make them feel at home, give up their cars altogether.

Which brings on another threshold effect I like to call furnace dumping, which is, quite simply, if you have a building that doesn't need to be heated with a furnace, you save a whole bunch of money up front.

But then I'm going to slowly turn down the heat, so to speak, and then there's this viability threshold where now it would be possible for a replicator to actually live.

Now the viability threshold is reached, and the frequency distribution has dramatically changed and, in fact, stabilizes.

And of course, it reaches the viability threshold.

You hit the viability threshold.

And then, once you hit the threshold where the mutation rate is so high that you cannot self-reproduce, you cannot copy the information forward to your offspring without making so many mistakes that your ability to replicate vanishes.

But a major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you and to take the wheel and steer it.

Step over the threshold of your door into your foyer, your hallway, whatever's on the other side, and appreciate the quality of the light.

Some formations are almost at the threshold of human visibility.

To understand what that means, let's look at the lecture-based classroom, and let's pick the median performance as a threshold.

In the individual tutoring instruction, 98 percent of the students are going to be above that threshold.

Conventional wisdom held that everything was safe up to a point, a threshold.

As you walk towards the ever-open threshold, you disappear, both to yourselves and to others.

It really has brought us to the threshold of personalized medicine.

In fact, 65 decibels is the very level at which this big survey of all the evidence on noise and health found that, that is the threshold for the danger of myocardial infarction.

You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

Now, that's also wrong, because traffic happens to be a nonlinear phenomenon, meaning that once you reach above a certain capacity threshold then congestion starts to increase really, really rapidly.

And it's important, if you try to model this, you can think about normal development as a loss of cortical mass, loss of cortical gray matter, and what's happening in schizophrenia is that you overshoot that mark, and at some point, when you overshoot, you cross a threshold, and it's that threshold where we say, this is a person who has this disease, because they have the behavioral symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

But look at this closely and you can see that actually they've crossed a different threshold.

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