Herding Cats

As I let out the dogs and they all take off into the woods because they smell the deer or something, I feel like I am herding cats trying to get them back in.

It occurred to me that self organization of simple organisms and possibly even particles themselves follow a similar pattern. When an outside observer tryies to "catch" a particle or observe an object, we distrurb it and it takes off in some direction. Hiesenburg's uncertainty principle can come into play here. Or with organisms, it may stimulate the organism to move in a random direction.

However, when left alone, some form of equilibrium tends to occurr. With organisms, there might be a tendency to come together and self organize giving rise over time to complex organisms. With particles, they may tend to form stable atoms and so on.

Toss in evolution and one's that come together in a favorable way, would tend to propogate.

Simplistic examples but it would be interesting to model "cat herding" and compare this with organism and particle behavior.

So I guess if I left the dogs alone, they would come to the back door on their own eventually, probably with a collective intent. However, in the case of dogs, they may have eaten the deer poop, mushrooms and whatever else they can find and get themselves sick.