searching for an elegant and unifying quantitative perspective : options pricing provides a metaphor which is ideal for approaching this question : the elimination of theta from the argument, which is necessary to shift the perspective away from historical fact and inconsistencies with literal truth : dante's description of the metaphor of the poet, in which the literal sense is a fiction and the invented sense is true : description of the truth is more accurate when a fiction is employed to express it : the historical and factual perspective, cumbersome in its expressive accuracy, is removed in the device of the metaphor and thus the truth shines through the allegory more brightly : the vast experiment provided by a growing system of rules and measures in which agents are incontrovertibly continuously acting to maximize utility; in which ample controls are present; in which exists a level of saturation sufficient to ensure statistically robust measurements; in which accurate measurements are readily and continuously available; and in which agents enjoy increasingly available free flowing information : the closed system of continuously evolving structures are all based on, or essentially reducible to a basic unit : additionally, the universal mode of increasing complexity in structures is by introducing the element of time: theta : every complication within every instrument contained within the vast system of structures is due to the presence of theta : the elimination of theta would reduce the entire system to a single value, or at least the aggregate of multiple values determined by ownership, but in theory measurable : so because of the serendipity of the experiment, the quantitative solution is at hand, merely a matter of analysis : appro pos of the experiment is dante's contrasting of plutus, the classical god of wealth, and the spenders and hoarders with the goddess fortune in the fourth circle, canto vii : those who hoarded or over spent their riches reside between the gluttons and the wrathful and sullen : '... people, more than elsewhere, many. On one side and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force of chest. They clashed together, and then at that point Each one turned backward, rolling retrograde, Crying, "Why keepest?" and, "Why sqaunderest thou?" Thus they returned along the lurid circle On either hand unto the opposite point, shouting their shameful metre evermore.' : the lurid circle and sisyphus path taken by the spenders and hoarders is contrasted later in the canto with the sphere of fortune, who, being blamed by those who object to her 'governance' of treasure, which occurs 'Beyond resistance of all human wisdom', is unaffected by the 'bad repute'; '... she is blissful, and she hears it not' : Among the other primal creatures gladsome She turns her sphere, and blissful she rejoices' : the sphere of fortune, which metes out wealth in a just fashion, is contrasted with the individual spherical weights pushed along like sisyphus by the spenders and hoarders : the sphere can presumably be employed either in justice or in incontinence