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> Chaos theory is the idea that complex systems are deterministic, but that even minute changes in the initial parameters of the system, or the forces applied t
by jessriedel 10y ago
> Chaos theory is the idea that complex systems are deterministic, but that even minute changes in the initial parameters of the system, or the forces applied to the system can cause dramatically different outcomes.
You can have chaotic deterministic dynamics, and this can help explain why formally deterministic systems are indeterministic in practice. But you can just as well have chaotic dynamics in a formally indeterministic system. Chaos is about (a) sensitive dependence on initial conditions and (b) bounded phase space (or some sort of other restriction that implies the "folding" phenomena when combined with (a)). In particular, there is a whole field of quantum chaos, and there's nothing contradictory about it.
> If so, the implication of this research is that quantum entanglement somehow produces a deterministic environment from a large collection of probabilities?
Nope.
- kordless 10y agoIf I may make a correlation to initial conditions and randomness: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/19168c663618b7f07158 https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/19168c663618b7f07158