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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: edge of chaos
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 19:50:40 GMT
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In article <D7JzuB.I9v@midway.uchicago.edu> awl1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>langton came up with the idea that complex behaviour occurs at the edge
>of chaos, that is between order and chaos is where things start behaving
>in interesting ways.
>  he draws the analogy within physics with the critical point where second
>order phase transitions occur as being similar to the edge of chaos, because
>at that point you have fluctuations on all length scalesm and infinte length
>correlation functions.

Another way to obtain this is at the critical point of Turing
Universal computation, which has the advantage of arbitrary complexity
*and* repeatability when desired.

