Yeah, lots of fun with this topic. There are two types of complex systems as far as we know, linear and non-linear. Overall, linear systems are nature and all that we create to mimic its behaviors and characteristics. there are non-linear systems imbedded in the whole, but the overall nature of nature is analog.
Non-linear systems could be thought of as anti-nature or anti-analog in that they are systems of intervention, symmetry breaking, or initiating change. But that would be too simple of a description. You could consider storms to be non-linear in comparison with pleasant and sunny weather. But no, when considered together with nicer weather, linear (high pressure) systems in conjunction with non-linear (low pressure) systems are functioning components of larger interconnected systems which make up the wholeness of the world's weather patterns.
Something like a FTM, must be digitally controlled, inherently non-linear and outside of the local space time fabric, and that screws up the natural order in systems to a state where things linear and non-linear may not be reconcilable, thus eventually bringing about chaotic episodes in the natural order. *Kris Kristofferson would call it a 'timequake'*
That may explain the explosion of linear to non-linear (analog to digital), and vice-versa, microchip manufacturing and sales the past twenty years or so.
I also once had a dream of a little old man sitting at a control console in a small building on top of a Swiss mountain trying to control this sort of stuff. He didn't seem to be very "happy in his work".
flow....
