On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:02:44 -0700, Chris Burton wrote:
>Do those of you who "know" (Ahmad, Declan anyone else) have any ideas about
>other problems. I actually suspect much behavioural illness eg depression,
>physical symptoms no physical cause, develops strange attractors over time
>but it may be a complicated way of explaining common sense.
Certainly much of human behaviour can demonstrate fractal patterns and
deterministic periodicity.
The difficulty here would be the measurement of such patterns and their
effects.
Not an easy RCT type of enquiry, is it?
Perhaps we can persuade some social scientist to examine the course?
Talking about social engineering,... oh,... better not, may be later
BTW, I have the original Mandelbrot book if anyone wants a peek.
Ahmad
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