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Edge of chaos

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]

  1. ^ Schwartz, Katrina (6 May 2014). "On the Edge of Chaos: Where Creativity Flourishes". KQED. Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  2. ^ Complexity Labs. "Edge of Chaos". Complexity Labs. Archived from the original on 15 May 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. ^ Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay (2009). "Dynamics of an ecological model living on the edge of chaos". Applied Mathematics and Computation. 210 (2): 455–464. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2009.01.006.
  4. ^ Deragon, Jay. "Managing On The Edge Of Chaos". Relationship Economy.
  5. ^ Lawler, E.; Thye, S.; Yoon, J. (2015). Order on the Edge of Chaos Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107433977.
  6. ^ Wotherspoon, T.; et., al. (2009). "Adaptation to the edge of chaos with random-wavelet feedback". J. Phys. Chem. A. 113 (1): 19–22. Bibcode:2009JPCA..113...19W. doi:10.1021/jp804420g. PMID 19072712.

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