Fred,
When Conway created the "Game of Life", was he trying to get gliders and puffers? When Mandelbrot created an iterative sequence on the complex plane, was he expecting to find not only a complex picture, but a complex picture that contains all sorts of variations and alterations of the original image deep inside itself? When Robert May graphed the solutions of the population formula over varying k, was he expecting to find something that falls to complete chaos and then suddenly reorganizes itself? No. Chaos and order happen when you have iterative orderly rules, virtually every time.
It's just part of reality. Simple rules create simple results. But *iterative* simple rules create complex results.
(ed: corrected a typo)
------------------
"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."
[This message has been edited by Rei, 12-12-2003]
™ Version 4.2