The substance of our decisions is unpredictable, just as the position
of the next dot appearing on a Poincare cross-section of a strange
attractor is appears randomly. But the "democratic" process by which
the random output appears is quite systematic, and crystallizes into
what we know as a feeling of "community"--of social belonging. So it
is a systematic way of producing random results. That's why penal
codes make no damn sense. People will only discover what to do with
an offender in a just world after they have gotten input from the
offender and others involved. And the offender will help define the
result by his or her input. Hence, the proper response to a crime is
unpredictable within the systematic, or "due" process I propose as an
alternative control system. l&p hal