The Varieties of the Anastomotic Reticulum

So far, so good, but now nature takes its revenge. We may devise variety generators and control mechanisms just as nature disposes variety proliferators in proposing problems of control. If we the controllers can generate very large numbers from a small number of components, so can nature. That is what variety proliferation means. The world does not consist of 40 light bulbs, but a million of things and events.