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She argues that orientation within social space is a primary function of early play and developmentally a two-step process. With other people and with objects in the environment, children first move from the inside out, using feedback provided through early play to calibrate internal systems. Once children coordinate sensory, affective, cognitive, imagistic, and behavioral systems, they then switch modes to navigate from the outside in, via conceptual maps provided by external social and informational cues. If they achieve full social orientation, their imaginations remain for them portals to reality throughout their lives. Otherwise, they mobilize inner resources in defense of a lost, disoriented, or fragile self. A fractal model suggests that the whole of the self, intact during early play, exhibits self-similar resonances in the content and forms of self-expression throughout life.  \nthis article approaches play through the contemporary sciences of interpersonal neurobiology and nonlinear dynamics. Interpersonal neurobiology (Badenoch 2008; Cozolino 2005; Schore 1994; Siegel 1999) is the multidisciplinary study of how one system of the brain, mind, and body develops in the context of another system of brain, mind, and body. When new parents tickle their baby’s toes or stick out their tongues in hopes that their newborn will imitate them, they follow a universal instinct. In issuing the call to play, parents enter into a lifelong relationship, linking brain to brain, mind to mind, and body to body, creating for both parents and child emotions of joy, curiosity, and discovery. Because interpersonal neurobiology examines how the brains, minds, and bodies of parents and child become entangled, the subject is inherently both complex and nonlinear.  \nNonlinear dynamics studies how complex systems change overtime. Chaos theory (Gleick 1987) addresses uncertainty, unpredictability, and spontaneous novelty in nature. Complexity theory (Bak 1996; Waldrop 1992) illuminates  \n© 2010 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois  \nhow natural systems organize themselves at the edge of chaos, from the bottom up, without centralized control or deliberate planning. In fractal geometry (Mandelbrot 1977), a fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a smaller copy of the whole—a property called self-similarity. Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, mathematical fractals are considered infinitely complex. In a sense, they offera pattern (self-similarity) beneath chaos and complexity, i.e. the shape of the whole is reflected in all its parts, whether the parts are of different sizes or on different time scales (Mandelbrot 1977) .  \nFractals are ubiquitous throughout nature, found within the clouds, mountains, and rivers (Mandelbrot 1977; Schroeder 1991). Fractals also permeate our bodies, appearing in branching structures and processes within our arteries, lungs, and neurons (Liebowitz 1998; Mac Cormac and Stamenov 1996; West and Deerling 1995; West 2006) . Fractals are holistic patterns that reveal how dynamics in time transform into structures in space. As we age, for example, the transient facial expressions that register our emotions become permanent fractal wrinkles etched into our faces. These wrinkled fractals, then, reflect not only the worries and anxieties that have lately consumed our lives but also the foundations established during our earliest play.  \nPlay is chaotic, complex, and filled with fractals (Fromberg 2002; VanderVen 1998, 2004). It is chaotic through its unexpected turns and surprises. Play is complex because it is organized and novel. 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