chaos
Let an agent explain chaos in its everyday, mythological, scientific and historical senses, relay chaos theory and related concepts from scientific sources, describe historical usages with attribution, and distinguish deterministic chaos from randomness, disorder from entropy, and the senses from one another.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain chaos in its everyday, mythological, scientific and historical senses, relay chaos theory and related concepts from scientific sources, describe historical usages with attribution, and distinguish deterministic chaos from randomness, disorder from entropy, and the senses from one another.
A state of complete disorder and confusion, from the primordial chaos of mythology to everyday disarray such as the tangled cables nicknamed cable salad, and in science the specific sense of deterministic chaos, where systems governed by simple rules show sensitive dependence on initial conditions, including homoclinic chaos near saddle orbits, alongside crystallographic disorder in materials and historical usage such as atamanshchina for the warlordism of the Russian Civil War; the term spans mythology, politics, science and daily life.
What it is for: Not applicable; a state.
It can be explain senses; relay chaos theory; describe historical usages; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Disorder
Deterministic yet unpredictable
Mythic origin
Multiple senses
What it looks like
Not a visible object; disorder in a system.
Physical character
Lorenz attractor: 1963 year
Lyapunov exponent: positive in chaos note
period-doubling constant: 4.669 ratio - Feigenbaum
How it is recognised
State of complete disorder
Primordial chaos, deterministic chaos, homoclinic chaos, crystallographic disorder, cable salad, atamanshchina
Randomness lacks rules; entropy is a thermodynamic measure; complexity is not necessarily chaotic
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is studied in - as deterministic chaos
is contrasted with - which lacks deterministic rules
appears in - as primordial chaos
In practice
Families and kinds
everyday disorder such as cable salad
primordial chaos in mythology
deterministic chaos in dynamical systems
homoclinic chaos and strange attractors
crystallographic disorder in materials
political chaos such as atamanshchina, with accounts attributed
Standards and regulation
No regulation
Failure modes and hazards
Conflating deterministic chaos with randomness
Popular misuse of chaos theory
Registry aliases spanning unrelated senses
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.chaos
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What chaos is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is chaos in everyday, mythological and scientific senses, and how does deterministic chaos differ from randomness? definition
- Is the question about everyday disorder, myth, science, materials or history? boundary
Senses
Senses.
Senses
Senses.
- What are deterministic chaos, homoclinic chaos, crystallographic disorder, cable salad and atamanshchina? definition
- Which entry fits the specific sense? action
Science Chaos theory.
Science.
Theory
Theory.
Theory
Theory.
- What are sensitive dependence, strange attractors, Lyapunov exponents and routes to chaos? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Applications
Applications.
Applications
Applications.
- Where does chaos appear in weather, ecology, engineering and physiology? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Culture Myth and history.
Attribution.
Myth
Mythology.
Myth
Myth.
- How do Greek, Near Eastern and other mythologies describe primordial chaos? provenance
- Which entry fits Chaos in Greek mythology? action
History
Political chaos.
History
History.
- What was atamanshchina in the Russian Civil War, as historians describe it? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed? boundary
Context Materials and philosophy.
Context.
Materials
Crystallographic disorder.
Materials
Materials.
- What is crystallographic disorder, and how does it affect materials? provenance
- Which entry fits crystallographic defect? action
Philosophy
Philosophy.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- How have philosophers and artists treated chaos and order? provenance
- Which entry fits order and chaos in philosophy? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should chaos theory, crystallographic disorder and atamanshchina be separate primary entries?
- How should scientific and historical sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming unrelated senses; should they be split off?