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Title:       Chaos
Date:        2023-04-25
Tags:        box3, philosophy, science, books
Link:        https://spool-five.com/box3/20230425t124333--chaos__box3_philosophy_science/
Word Count:  168
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#books[1]
=>[1] https://spool-five.com/box3/20220530t000000--books__box3/

Some alternative formulations of Chaos, taken from Chaos: Making a New
Science, by James Gleick[2]
=>[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science

> The complicated, aperiodic, attracting orbits of certain (usually
> low-dimensional) dynamical systems.
>
> -   Philip Holmes

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> A kind of order without periodicity.
>
> A rapidly expanding field of research to which mathematicians,
> physicists, hydrodynamicists, ecologists and many others have all made
> important contributions.
>
> A newly recognized and ubiquitous class of natural phenomena.
>
> -   Hao Bai-Lin

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> Apparently random recurrent behaviour in a simple deterministic
> (clockwork-like) system.
>
> -   H. Bruce Stewart

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> The irregular, unpredictable behaviour of deterministic, nonlinear
> dynamical systems.
>
> -   Roderick V. Jensen

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> Dynamics with positive, but finite, metric entropy. The translation
> from mathese is: behaviour that produces information (amplifies small
> uncertainties), but is not utterly unpredictable.
>
> -   James Crutchfield

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> Dynamics freed at last from the shackles of order and predictability...Systems
> liberated to randomly explore their every dynamical possibility...
> Exciting variety, richness of choice, a cornucopia of opportunity.
>
> -   Joseph Ford