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Wasn't sure why they called biology "chaotic". Complex, yes, but chaotic? No. More like "we don't understand it".

• Robotbeat 5y ago
  “Chaotic” may be an appropriate term. I mean, “Chaos Theory” (using a very technical definition of the word “chaos” which is only serving as an analogy here) deals with systems that are understandable and somewhat predictable in the near term but with a certain amount of a particular kind of complexity that makes it totally unpredictable in the long term. Even when you understand that he fundamental, reductionist physics. A simple pendulum is predictable over the near and far term. A double pendulum, on the other hand, is “chaotic,” and fundamentally not predictable in the long term, even though all the relevant fundamental physical laws are known. I think “chaos” is a good word describing something which is in between the fully predictable and the purely random.