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Maybe you’ve had this experience: You are thinking about an acquaintance that you haven’t thought about in a long time and at that moment the phone rings. ”What are the odds that it’s Jerry?” you think to yourself. And when it IS Jerry on the other line it seems somehow magical, amazing, beyond mere chance. [...]
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A response to the question: “How is chaos theory non-determinant?” This is an interesting question, because I think it might normally be asked in the opposite way: “How is chaos theory DETERMINANT?”, because chaos theory is, well, chaotic, so it seems more logical to connect chaos with non-determinancy than with determinancy. So to explore the question [...]
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4. I don’t understand how the butterfly effect looks like the structures seen in the book…a butterfly looking pattern. The butterfly effect is just the name, slightly arbitrary, of the idea that complex systems exhibit the characteristic by which tiny tiny tiny (infintesimally tiny) changes in one part of the system have the potential (not [...]
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3. And so, there’s all this talk about ‘deterministic chaotic systems’… What exactly, is the stunning significance of this? I think I get that every shape in nature is ultimately created by patterns of itself within itself, but I’m confused as a biologist or physiologist or biochemist because things like continents are made of trillions [...]
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2. Does the fractal model also work for dynamic, fluid or changing shapes? Yes, in fact this is it’s most ‘natural home’ I think. The reason is that fractals are about processes, not things, and processes are just that: descriptions of changes, not of things, and changes have a way of, well, being DIFFERENT the [...]
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