Re: Chaos and Control

[TQNELSON@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/2000 Ed Baker wrote: 
 There has been recent discussion on the DEN about whether nature tends to 
move to control or chaos. I do not think these concepts are opposites. What 
looks like chaos from a short-term or otherwise limited viewpoint, looks 
stable from another. 
  

That makes two us. Chaos is random variation in a "system" at a higher or 
lower level than the observer is either aware of or is not properly 
measuring/gathering data on.

Del Nelson
American River College

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