Stan Yoder

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Already by the mid–1980s the word was being defined rather narrowly (see here) by many scientists, who applied it to a special subset of the phenomena covered by more general terms such as “complex systems.” Astute readers, though, could tell that I preferred Joe Ford’s more freewheeling “cornucopia” style of definition—“Dynamics freed at last from the shackles of order and predictability…”—and
Chaos: Making a New Science
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