The images of the electric eel and the popping tangle of seaweed convey something of the speed and surprisingness of William's mind. |
They have the complexity and the surprisingness of human beings, and human beings are capable of anything. |
I always hope I can still be surprised by the process and do try to arrange that for myself, but I probably didn't expect quite the level of surprisingness I encountered when I wrote a Doctor Who book. |
We can also estimate the surprisingness of applicability conjectures, by assessing how likely it is that a production rule step would produce very few models. |