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Chaos
What is Chaos?Chaos, from a static view, is “pieces waiting to come together,” an inchoate pattern about to happen.Chaos, from a dynamic view, is a process. It has a consistency to it. From a scientific standpoint chaos has a pattern, a kind of rhythm, ebbs and flows. Real “scientific” chaos isn’t just a mish-mash, a dissolution of a pattern, but also a new pattern coming together.
Chaos Theory
What is Chaos Theory?Chaos Theory (ChT) is a mathematical approach to modeling patterns of non-linear, non-independent behaviors of dynamical systems. It is not, per se, a philosophical system or paradigm. ChT is about the fracturing of patterns, but it is also about how that collection of pieces sorts itself out. That coming back together again is what makes Chaos so interesting—and why it and ChT is so import to you.
Chaos Theory ConstructsPhase Space Strange Attractors and Basins of AttractionSelf-AffinityFractals(Dis)EquilibriumControl and Order (Parameters)Bifurcation and Bifurcation CascadeUnpredictability—The Butterfly Effect and
othersRecursivityResonanceSelf-Organization (Emergence)
Phase Spaces: Maps and Mappings
The Phase Space: a conceptualization (often pictorial or geometric) of the possible states a system might take.
Conveys that, at best, we see only a portion of “reality” at one time—that part on which we choose to focus.
Phase Space: Points to Remember
The map is not the territory.
The territory-- reality--is unknowable.
You see what you look for.
Strange Attractors and Basins of Attraction
Strange attractors are focal points for many-- the most challenging-- patterns generated by dynamical, chaotic systems.
Basins of attraction are the areas containing those patterns within their boundaries.
Self-Affinity
Self-affinity denotes the tendency for phenomena to evidence recurring patterns. The affinity can be over size, time, different angles, or other ways more difficult to see or to grasp, for example, by the process that generates them or probabilistically.
Fractals
Fractal boundaries (or simply fractals) are mathematical representations of the irregular "lines" of demarcation between separate units. Fractals convey that reality is rarely as clear/clean cut as we picture it.
(Dis)Equilibrium
Equilibrium relates to the possibility for change—types of pattern attractors
Change occurs with disequilibrium (far from equilibrium states
Control and Order(Parameters)
Control Parameters-determine the degree of sensitivity/disequilibrium
Order Parameters-reflect the “bigger” picture of the system patterns
Order parameters at one level can be the control parameters at another (and vice versa)
Bifurcation/Cascade
Bifurcation is a scientific way to say something splits in two—branches.
If patterns bifurcate quickly enough, they can become complex very fast, leading to bifurcation cascade and chaos.
Unpredictability
Unpredictability is the inability to state with certainty the next state (or, for that matter, the previous state) of a system given knowledge of its present state.
Unpredictability
Unpredictability is the inability to state with certainty the next state (or, for that matter, the previous state) of a system given knowledge of its present state.
Unpredictability
Unpredictability is the inability to state with certainty the next state (or, for that matter, the previous state) of a system given knowledge of its present state.
Types of Unpredicability
Heisenberg-the more/the less.
Schroedinger’s Cat-both/and.
Goedel-inside/outside.
Lorenz (The “Butterfly Effect”)-left/right?
Types of Unpredicability
Heisenberg-the more/the less.
Schroedinger’s Cat-both/and.
Goedel-inside/outside.
Lorenz (The “Butterfly Effect”)-left/right?
Recursivity
Recursivity is self-reflexiveness, and self-relectiveness, feeding information from one’s patterns back into the process of producing them. In mathematical language it is non-linearity and non-independence. Because of recursivity, change depends on the tuning constant, k, which determines the sensitivity of the system.
Human Dynamical System
Behaviors
FeelingsThoughts
Behaviors
Thoughts Feelings
Person A Person B
Resonance
Resonance is when two or more separate entities find their patterns in synch and that synchronicity reappears or continues over time and changes
Self-Organization(Emergence)
Self-organization is the inherent tendency for systems in a chaotic state to form a new coherent pattern (i.e., for it to emerge).
Their innate ability to reorganize is based only on the interactions of their components.
SPONTANEITY
Prepared Adaptability
Producing a novel response to an old stimulus/situation…or an adequate response to a new one.
A Recipe for SpontaneitySpontaneity is:
Parameter bound—appropriate to the situation, aimed at staying in the basin of attraction or creating a new one;Adequate--meeting situational demands, applying apt phase mappings and self-affine;Novel—fractal and bifurcating--new, at least somewhat--and imbued with energy;Immediate—done, that is enacted, in the “here and now” of the circumstances; andCreative—generating and providing a new “map” for the next similar situation, self-organizing.
Points to RememberChaos is not Havoc (a violent disruption of a pattern).Chaos is crisis with opportunity to change.Take the “v” (violence) out of havoc; replace it with the “s” for spontaneity—hasoc; allow some self-organization; and …
CHAOS