Positive feedback and multiple equilibria have to be taken seriously.
In fact, desire and, in particular, rage energise the film, bursting apart its studied Enlightenment equilibria.
They are also a special case of Nash equilibria.
May you all return to your families and equilibria with love and happiness, and let us say Amen.
That's why South Africans and Palestinians visit Brussels: to study the rather Byzantine labyrinth of our language equilibria.
Instead of a series of comfortable equilibria, however, a game of Dwarf Fortress tends harshly, inevitably, toward ruin.
In simultaneous truels that go more than one round, by comparison, there are multiple Nash equilibria.
Observe, however, that there are four other Nash equilibria in this game.
And the recursive nature of this process means that multiple equilibria are possible.
Thus, "nobody shoots" and "everybody shoots" are the Nash equilibria in these two kinds of truels.
Both equilibria depend on what all the students believe their peers will do.
