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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7872)	9/7/2001 2:40:13 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Randomness is only one aspect of chaotic systems. I think our examples are of degree and not of kind. Still I am trying to be precise in the terminology since that is the essence of the subject matter. As such I disagree that randomness is any part of chaos. Randomness may be present in a chaotic system and is present in most real world chaotic systems (like the weather or a dripping faucet) but randomness, the separation of cause and effect, is not chaos. Chaos is a function of complexity and of future states and possibilities becoming more numerous than any ability to record or compute all of the outcomes even if they remain bounded. TP