Edward Backman’s Reviews > Repetition and Identity > Status Update

[on iteration in mathematics] “if one applies a certain defined process to a certain item, and then reapplies the same process to the result of the first application, the next upshot and then n upshots afterwards are unpredictable … The unpredictable behaviour of some phenomena within the universe might give us a better clue to physical reality as such, and to its character as spontaneous and ceaselessly creative