Edge of chaos

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Edge of chaos

"The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos."[1]

— Dr. Robert Bilder, Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

The edge of chaos is a transition space between order and disorder that is hypothesized to exist within a wide variety of systems. This transition zone is a region of bounded instability that engenders a constant dynamic interplay between order and disorder.[2]

Even though the idea of the edge of chaos is an abstract one, it has many applications in such fields as ecology,[3] business management,[4] psychology,[5] political science, and other domains of the social sciences. Physicists have shown that adaptation to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback.[6]

History

The phrase edge of chaos was coined in the late 1980s by

universal computation.[10][9][12] At around the same time physicist James P. Crutchfield and others used the phrase onset of chaos to describe more or less the same concept.[13]

In the sciences in general, the phrase has come to refer to a metaphor that some physical, biological, economic and social systems operate in a region between order and either complete randomness or chaos, where the complexity is maximal.[14][15] The generality and significance of the idea, however, has since been called into question by Melanie Mitchell and others.[16] The phrase has also been borrowed by the business community and is sometimes used inappropriately and in contexts that are far from the original scope of the meaning of the term.[citation needed]

Stuart Kauffman has studied mathematical models of evolving systems in which the rate of evolution is maximized near the edge of chaos.[17]

Adaptation

self-adjusting parameters inherent for many natural systems. The prominent feature of systems with self-adjusting parameters is an ability to avoid chaos
. The name for this phenomenon is "Adaptation to the edge of chaos".

Adaptation to the edge of chaos refers to the idea that many

anti-fragility, and innovation near the edge of chaos, provided these systems are sufficiently decentralized and non-hierarchical.[24][23][22]

Because of the importance of adaptation in many natural systems, adaptation to the edge of the chaos takes a prominent position in many scientific researches. Physicists demonstrated that adaptation to state at the boundary of chaos and order occurs in population of

cellular automata rules which optimize the performance evolving with a genetic algorithm.[27][28] Another example of this phenomenon is the self-organized criticality in avalanche and earthquake models.[29]

The simplest model for chaotic dynamics is the logistic map. Self-adjusting logistic map dynamics exhibit adaptation to the edge of chaos.[30] Theoretical analysis allowed prediction of the location of the narrow parameter regime near the boundary to which the system evolves.[31]

See also

References

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  23. ^ a b Berreby, David (1 April 1996). "Between Chaos and Order: What Complexity Theory Can Teach Business". strategy-business.com. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  24. ^ a b B. Porter, Terry. "Coevolution as a research framework for organizations and the natural environment" (PDF). University of Maine. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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  26. ^ A Lambert, Philip (June 2018). "The Order-Chaos Dynamic of Creativity". University of New Brunswick. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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