chaos theory for lay people? [was MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write]

[Thomas Eckhardt]

At 14:05 27.07.1997 -0300, you wrote:
>There seem to be no "chaos theory" images in _M&D_.  

I don't have the knowledge and the time to even try to understand the
on-going discussion about chaos theory. But this is a "fractal image", I guess:

"He believes that bread is alive,- that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a
single purposeful individual,- that each loaf is so organized, with the
crust, for example, serving as skin or carapace,- the small cavities within
exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale Walls, to appearance smooth,
proving, upon magnification, to be made up of even smaller bubbles, and, one
may presume, so forth, down to the limit of the invisible." MD 204

Note that "bread" in German means "Brot", as in "Mandelbrot" (which would be
"almond bread"). Could be helpful to know what "Animalcula" means. 

The passage continues: "The Loaf, the indispensable point of convergence
upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is mostly, like
the soul, Emptiness." Which implies, I think, that the soul is fractal...
Thomas Eckhardt


                             The clouds didn't look like cotton,
                             they didn't even look like clouds.

                             Townes Van Zandt