Peter Stevens provided three equally correct but numerically non-equivalent explanations for river meander patterns: least-energy, centrifugal force, and highest-probability random walk.

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• River meander curves are spaced at approximately ten times the width of the river, and meander in a way that minimizes energy consumption at bends.finding0.781
  Quantitative morphological finding about river meanders used to illustrate minimum-energy morphogenesis
• Centrifugal Force in River Meanderingconcept0.763
  The mechanical explanation for river meander loops: centrifugal force erodes outer banks, creating STRONG CENTERS and GOOD SHAPE
• Random Walk Explanation of Meandersconcept0.752
  One of three distinct explanations for river meanders: the highest-probability path for a fixed-length random walk between two points takes a meander form
• The same charitable interpretation must be extended to all systems that display observable response patterns that are consistent with animal cognition, including artificial intelligences, metaplastic materials, and robotic systems.claim0.743
  Call to extend the inference of sentience to non-biological systems as well.
• Collins-Bhatt-Sucholutsky's 'AI Rogers Paradox' (cheap AI learning crowds out human individual learning) will complicate About Blank's Bicycle-for-the-Soul vector, forcing explicit design against chauprediction0.737
• "What do African rhythms, spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators in nuclear physics, string theory (stringology) in computer science, and an ancient algorithm described by Euclid have in common? The short answer is: patterns distributed as evenly as possible."concept0.735
  Opening rhetorical question that encapsulates the paper's central claim: multiple domains share the principle of even distribution.
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.733
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• Lyons-Levin and Alexander describe the same mechanism in different epistemic registers: mathematical vs. phenomenological.claim0.731