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Your second paragraph doesn't seem to follow from the first: a low-freedom state can still be stable.
by cousin_it 18y ago
Your second paragraph doesn't seem to follow from the first: a low-freedom state can still be stable.
- olefoo 18y agoThere can be multiple stable points of equilibrium in a given system. To use the pencil example, there are an infinite number of stable equilibriums where the pencil is laying flat, but none where it is standing on the pointy end.