As an aside (I didn’t want to disrupt the chain of responses, so I am putting it here):
underlying process is Markovian.
I really wish people didn’t use “Markovian” for the adjective form. Do to an earlier immersion in science fiction, seeing “Markovian” gives me intense Well of Souls flashbacks, I actually have to stop and get back on track with the current argument. I also wish Chalker had used something else for their name, but that is too long past.
I don’t know why I have such an intense response to “Markovian” since the Well of Souls series wasn’t important to me, there is a lot of SF that I like better. I suspect it has something to do with the unusualness of the name.
As an aside (I didn’t want to disrupt the chain of responses, so I am putting it here):
I really wish people didn’t use “Markovian” for the adjective form. Do to an earlier immersion in science fiction, seeing “Markovian” gives me intense Well of Souls flashbacks, I actually have to stop and get back on track with the current argument. I also wish Chalker had used something else for their name, but that is too long past.
I don’t know why I have such an intense response to “Markovian” since the Well of Souls series wasn’t important to me, there is a lot of SF that I like better. I suspect it has something to do with the unusualness of the name.