CHAOS (Anti-)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 407 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
A property of “some very disordered systems (which) spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order”.
Such “very disordered systems” seem to contain implicite order, through the nonlinear interactions between a number of different simultaneous types of behavior within the system. These result in a very complex global determinism at such a very long term time horizon that it either cannot be observed, or becomes deeply transformed in time by perturbations. See “Prime numbers” and “Three Bodies Problem”.
- “However, in some cases, these nonlinear interactions become associated in such a way as to generate a strongly unifying and self-maintaining pattern. Solitons are good examples of this kind of self-organization.
According to J. BRIGGS & F. DAVID PEAT (1989), solitons, very far to be only a rare and curious hydrodynamic phenomenon, as for example giant waves that sometimes appear in oceans, would be a very general one, even in biological systems and in nervous transmission.