How chaos forgets and remembers

The central tenet of chaos is that simple deterministic systems - those in which the past uniquely determines the present and the present pegs down the future - can display behaviour that seems random. Writing in Physics Letters A, James and co-workers2 present a study that adds a layer of subtlety...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2014-06, Vol.510 (7505), p.343-344
Main Authors: Binder, P.-M., Pipes, R. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Analysis
Chaos theory
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information theory
multidisciplinary
news-and-views
Science
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Summary:The central tenet of chaos is that simple deterministic systems - those in which the past uniquely determines the present and the present pegs down the future - can display behaviour that seems random. Writing in Physics Letters A, James and co-workers2 present a study that adds a layer of subtlety to this statement: they show that measurements on a deterministic system that evolves in time may contain information that is specific to its past, present and future.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/510343a