If a system is rich in diversity, it can respond to changes in its environment in a nuanced way. In agriculture, the practice of monoculture, or monocropping, can leave the enterprise as a whole quite susceptible to environmental insults, whereas the biodiversity associated with polyculture can result in a more resilient farm. Even if an environmental change severely impacts individual crops, the system can be more able to adapt and thrive.
How might this be like the individual mind, filled with occasionally self-contradictory thoughts, rich in variety of perspective, but not a mind “made up,” a mind decided?