If we were to zoom in on this attractor, we would find the initial shape echoed at smaller scales. Our ability to understand the Mandelbrot set, and thus the order inherent in chaos, is limited not only by our computing power, but also by the time we have available to explore these realms. These ideas will be demonstrated later through a simulation of a networked conversation in which concepts are repeated and reorganized in a self-similar fashion. The post-structural approach of deconstruction fascinated and attracted me through the way in which it portrayed the literary endeavor as bounded in context and the critical endeavor as irresolvable. Many of these ideas had occurred to me while reading and writing.
Texts refer to each other and themselves, interweaving their influences unto infinity.
The traditional view of the autonomous order or truth of a text is overturned in favor of a view towards the context-dependency and malleability of a text by the critical reader. Thus all efforts to uncover inherent meaning and order through language are doomed to failure. Even here, however, analogies can be made, this time with non-linear thermodynamics. Similarly, one of the three criteria for the self-organizing system proposed by Nobel laureate Illya Prigogine is that the system be thermodynamically open to its environment. If the interpenetration of all texts, one way or another, is a given, then all texts are open systems which shall remain open to the whole textual process.