Free Will vs Fate
This idea of how much control we can have seems about right to me:
“Actually, you're just the captain of a paper boat drifting down the river. If you try to resist, you're not going to get anywhere. On the other hand, if you quietly observe the flow, realizing that you're part of it, realizing that the flow is ever-changing and always leading to new complexities, then every so often you can stick an oar into the river and punt yourself from one eddy to the another.”
W. Brian Arthur quoted in M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos (1992), at 331 and again by Thomas Earl Geu, The Tao of Jurisprudence: Chaos, Brain Science, Synchronicity, and The Law (1991) 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 933 at 987
The said Belfast Californian W. Brian Arthur has a new book out this month. Maybe I'll read it
“Actually, you're just the captain of a paper boat drifting down the river. If you try to resist, you're not going to get anywhere. On the other hand, if you quietly observe the flow, realizing that you're part of it, realizing that the flow is ever-changing and always leading to new complexities, then every so often you can stick an oar into the river and punt yourself from one eddy to the another.”
W. Brian Arthur quoted in M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos (1992), at 331 and again by Thomas Earl Geu, The Tao of Jurisprudence: Chaos, Brain Science, Synchronicity, and The Law (1991) 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 933 at 987
The said Belfast Californian W. Brian Arthur has a new book out this month. Maybe I'll read it
posted by Ian Snaith at 12:52 PM
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