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| in the same chapter, stewart p108, describes the new math of 'nonlinear dynamics' [chaos] and how it disrupts conventional ideas about chance [see also panofsky, jung] : that chance may not be chance, but instead determined by 'hidden variables' and that nonlinear dynamics involves the 'geometrization of dynamics' p113, which involves the 'concept of a phase space', which is an 'imaginary mathematical space that represents all possible motions of a given dynamical system' : he indicates that the leap for mathematics is toward an emphasis on 'the image of a phase space as a way of organizing the total range of potential behaviors, from among which nature selects the behaviors actually observed' : what this means to me is that the knowledge of 'potential behaviors' is essential to understanding 'natures selection' which determines what is 'actually observed' : the potential behaviors are the meta layer, the lacunae [sweet imagination], which determine the quality of the actually observed [recollections] : for the purposes of our conjecture, 'potential behaviors' vs. 'actually observed' is analogous to the distinction between 'recollections' and 'sweet imagination', the latter being the lacunae, the beats of rest, the meta [unseen, process] layer, the theta of fermentation [decay], etc. : |
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