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I apologize in advance if I'm being overly pedantic, this weekend I took the time to do a cursory study of chaotic complex, systems emergence and fractals and i
by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I apologize in advance if I'm being overly pedantic, this weekend I took the time to do a cursory study of chaotic complex, systems emergence and fractals and i'm still trying on this new knowledge, but is it really considered random? (I dont know the precise definition)
Even if raised in identical conditions, a small perturbation in a social interaction (say one od the fish is looking directly at an event whilr another only catches a glance at it from the side) can bubble up to produce large changes in behavior?
- Retric 9y agoQM effects are considered random and influence just about every real world system. PS: At the 'other end' relativity actually influences a lot of chemistry because electrons are just that fast in orbit around atoms. But, that's generally ignored by just about everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
- ajkjk 9y agoIt's not (probably) random in the sense of true, quantum mechanical randomness, but random can be thought of existing 'with respect to the certain knowledge'. So if you flip a coin and have as input the precise physics of the launched coin and the air, the result isn't random; if you only know 'a coin was flipped' then it's essentially random. So I imagine chaotic systems' outcomes seem random if you have only approximate the initial conditions (since small perturbations will greatly modify the outcome) (that's probably a good, equivalent definition of a chaotic system, also).