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Alice in Wonderland - croquet game as an example of a chaotic system:<br> | Alice in Wonderland - croquet game as an example of a chaotic system:<br> | ||
''...Animals, which are themselves able to see things ahead and act on what they think is going to happen - a cat can catch a mouse by jumping to land where the mouse will probably be when she has completed her jump - but it's just the fact that animals are capable of seeing ahead and learning that makes them the only really unpredictable things in the world. To think that we try to make laws as though people were quite regular and predictable.'' | ''...Animals, which are themselves able to see things ahead and act on what they think is going to happen - a cat can catch a mouse by jumping to land where the mouse will probably be when she has completed her jump - but it's just the fact that animals are capable of seeing ahead and learning that makes them the only really unpredictable things in the world. To think that we try to make laws as though people were quite regular and predictable.'' (Bateson, 2000: 31) | ||
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Why do things have outlines?
Alice in Wonderland - croquet game as an example of a chaotic system:
...Animals, which are themselves able to see things ahead and act on what they think is going to happen - a cat can catch a mouse by jumping to land where the mouse will probably be when she has completed her jump - but it's just the fact that animals are capable of seeing ahead and learning that makes them the only really unpredictable things in the world. To think that we try to make laws as though people were quite regular and predictable. (Bateson, 2000: 31)