UNCERTAINTY (Chaotic)
Charles François (2004). UNCERTAINTY (Chaotic), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3670.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3670 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
P. COVENEY, in accordance with Prigoginian thermodynamics of systems far-from-equilibrium, alludes to “… a new kind of uncertainty principle that applies to chaotic dynamical systems. This new principle shows that complete certainty of the thermodynamic properties of a system (through knowledge of its irreversible age) renders the reversible dynamical description meaningless, whilst complete certainty in the dynamical description similarly disables the thermodynamic view” (1990, p.52).
Would chaotic uncertainty not be an obliged result of chaotic determinism, which maintains a global determinism, but does not allow any more a precise predictability?