11 A sense of place as fundamental to our thinking about models about equilibriums
When you are old it is your instability that tells you that you are getting old. You stagger. You need a cane. Your blood pressure is out of equilibrium. You get dizzy. You have trouble getting out of bed as things begin to whirl. Your vision does not stand still. To stand up when you are dizzy, much like sea sickness or being air sick, you need a fixed point to stare at on the horizon to reestablish or regain any sense of stability.
In thinking about stability and equilibrium what strikes me is that the two terms stability and equilibrium are correlative terms. We need one to define the other. As correlatives we need to have a sense of stability to sense that ...
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