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However, my focus departs from physics, which aims at identifying the true equilibrium state, discarding any possible impact of the initial conditions, the size of the sample, and the update algorithm used. Memory of past history is erased. In contrast, I claim that dealing with a social system, the history of the system must be taken into account in identifying the relevant social equilibrium state, which is always biased by its history. Accordingly, using Monte Carlo simulations, I explore the spectrum of non-universal equilibrium states of the Ising model at zero temperature. In particular, I show that different initial conditions with the same value of the order parameter lead to different equilibrium states. The same applies for different sizes and different update algorithms. 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