This allows each performer to remain an audience. It also gives a higher aesthetic value to those random events that happen around us when we are not actively participating in them. They are random in the sense of how they occur juxtaposed against each other through time. The wind begins to shake, The thunder increasing follows . . . Experiments would be made only in response to observed phenomena.
Pure observation is given importance over experimentation.
Although, when taken in its broadest sense, it could describe all behavior, if one believes in the idea that all things take the path of the least resistance while being unconsciously influenced by a complex web of forces. When taken this way, this soft breakable rule becomes a hard and fast law that governs all phenomena. It is difficult always to see this law influencing human behavior because our intent seems to be very wrapped up in what we do, but one wonders what forces contributed in the making of that intent. Following the path of the least resistance or the path of the greatest force seems only a matter of perspective. The high exalted nobleman.