Middle of the night. Two boys try to sleep; still they are afraid of what the other might do while he's asleep. So the couple transit from State F in which the first is awake and monitoring the situation to the specular State S with the second being awake and checking that the first is actually sleeping. This goes on and on: F S F S F S F S ... { F, S } is the cycle of said dynamical social system.
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