Complex systems, Chaos and ecosystem part 1: the defiance to reductionism
Reductionism, a philosophy that seeks to handle complexity by breaking into parts, serves as the corner stone for industrial revolution and contemporary science. This top-down approach is also quite compatible with the social hierarchy that rich peop...
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Eason Du
functions,math,and environmentalism
I presented this in a meeting and got some good questions:
Are chaotic systems calculable?
yes, if you have extremely accuracy of the initial condition. There're two way to address this: 1. we continue to quest for higher precision. 2. we accept this difficulty and give up for precise prediction/computation
In addition, someone mentioned Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser about the persistence of quasiperiodic motions under small perturbations, which can be seen as a special case when computation is desirable.