Objects in
the resulting model are not independent
nLinks between objects
induce correlations between them
The
result is a “web of influence” that spans many objects of different
types
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men,
and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads,
our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
Note that the objects in the
resulting network are not independent.The links between objects induce direct correlations, and indirect
correlations continue to propagate, leading to a complex web of influence,
that ties everything in the domain together.While this seems complicated, this is actually a good picture of what
life is like.As we live our lives, we
interact with each other, and with the world around us.These interactions often influence us,
causing us to change.