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Systems and Branches
by noteworthy at 6:19 am EST, Nov 7, 2007

At each branching point the options are well defined, but the choice is arbitrary. So two systems that are wholly identical at the outset might end up on quite different branches while experiencing the same driving force, simply because they happened to take different paths at each junction. "Time forks perpetually towards innumerable futures," as Jorge Luis Borges says in his story "The Garden of Forking Paths."


 
 
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