Perhaps 'intriguing' is the better term. I'd implore everyone to spend a few rainy weekends trudging through Mandelbrot's 'The Fractal Geometry of Nature'[1] a

Perhaps 'intriguing' is the better term. I'd implore everyone to spend a few rainy weekends trudging through Mandelbrot's 'The Fractal Geometry of Nature'[1] and Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science'[2]. Both are rather terse, but I found both added a whole new depth of analogy in the way I see the Universe(s). It's easy to be dismissive of Stephen Wolfram for his general asshat'ery and Benoit isn't around to champion his notions in the broader sense. But if we are to take reductivism to it's extreme, it's worth exploring emergent patterns with a bit more wonderment. [1] http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fractal_Geometry_of_Nature.html?id=0R2LkE3N7-oC http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fractal_Geometry_of_... [2] http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html