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<blockquote data-quote="Rosco..Jones" data-source="post: 53913" data-attributes="member: 2729"><p>#5 The Great Red Spot: Chaos/Complexity Theory</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons4.php" target="_blank">Inclusional Research Forum and Learning Space - Inclusional Comparisons: Chaos theory, complexity theory and emergence</a></p><p> </p><p>Some complex systems exhibit features that are referred to as “self organization” or “emergence”. These systems, which are fundamentally chaotic, or complex, have the capacity to produce patterns that are seemingly non-chaotic and predictable in behaviour. To return to an example that I used earlier, the weather is a chaotic system with emergent properties. Although the precise initial conditions that trigger individual weather patterns cannot be identified, or used to predict the detail of an outcome, the global weather system does produce some emergent patterns. These patterns, which include cold and warm fronts, recognisable cloud formations and so on, can be used to predict the overall behaviour of the system (<a href="http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php#holland" target="_blank">Holland, 1998</a>). Another example of an emergent feature in an otherwise chaotic system is the Great Red Spot on the surface of the planet Jupiter (<a href="http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php#ball" target="_blank">Ball, 1999</a>; <a href="http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php" target="_blank">Kauffman, 1995</a> ). Jupiter’s atmosphere is a chaotic system of turbulent gases, yet amongst its apparent disorder, the red spot remains constant and has done so for at least several centuries. The red spot is actually a vortex of swirling gases; basically it is a persistent storm system – it is a self-organized zone of constancy amid an otherwise chaotic system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rosco..Jones, post: 53913, member: 2729"] #5 The Great Red Spot: Chaos/Complexity Theory [url="http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons4.php"]Inclusional Research Forum and Learning Space - Inclusional Comparisons: Chaos theory, complexity theory and emergence[/url] Some complex systems exhibit features that are referred to as “self organization” or “emergence”. These systems, which are fundamentally chaotic, or complex, have the capacity to produce patterns that are seemingly non-chaotic and predictable in behaviour. To return to an example that I used earlier, the weather is a chaotic system with emergent properties. Although the precise initial conditions that trigger individual weather patterns cannot be identified, or used to predict the detail of an outcome, the global weather system does produce some emergent patterns. These patterns, which include cold and warm fronts, recognisable cloud formations and so on, can be used to predict the overall behaviour of the system ([URL='http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php#holland']Holland, 1998[/URL]). Another example of an emergent feature in an otherwise chaotic system is the Great Red Spot on the surface of the planet Jupiter ([URL='http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php#ball']Ball, 1999[/URL]; [URL='http://www.inclusional-research.org/comparisons9.php']Kauffman, 1995[/URL] ). Jupiter’s atmosphere is a chaotic system of turbulent gases, yet amongst its apparent disorder, the red spot remains constant and has done so for at least several centuries. The red spot is actually a vortex of swirling gases; basically it is a persistent storm system – it is a self-organized zone of constancy amid an otherwise chaotic system. [/QUOTE]
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