06-03-2023-1215 - 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]

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