And as it loses energy through friction, it will eventually come to rest somewhere in the rim of the Mexican hat. Its final situation there is 'perfectly stable', but no longer has rotational symmetry. The physicists say that the rotational symmetry in the underlying forces is 'broken' by what actually happens. The actual position in the rim is purely random, and cannot be predicted by the theory. The actual outcome has no deep significance, yet it influences what happens from then on, for all times.
Symmetry breaking occurs every time when virtual becomes real.
The energy, which propels the attractors of meaning in the virtual reality of our thoughts and feelings need to be 'transduced' into energy which propels the attractor of actions. The answers of these questions will be at the focus of our next paper devoted to social complexity. A New Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems, IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern.