Sensitive to Initial Conditions

Known as the butterfly effect - small variations yield large impacts

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Wohl, S. (2022, 17 May). Sensitive to Initial Conditions. Retrieved from https://kapalicarsi.wittmeyer.io/definition/sensitivity-to-initial-conditions

Sensitive to Initial Conditions was updated May 17th, 2022.

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Stuart Kauffman

Santa Fe Institute; Fitness Landscape

Major complexity theorist associated with the Sante Fe institute, developed idea of a Fitness Landscape

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Edward Norton Lorenz

Butterfly Effect

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Path Dependency

'Path-dependent' systems are ones where the system's history matters - the present state is contingent upon random factors that governed system unfolding, and that could have easily resulted in other viable trajectories.

Complex systems can follow many potential trajectories: the actualization of any given trajectory can be dependent on small variables, or "changes to initial conditions" that are actually pretty trivial. Accordingly, if we truly wish to understand system dynamics, we need to pay attention to all system pathways (or the system's phase space) rather than the pathway that happened to unfold.

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Emergence
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Driving Flows
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Adaptive Capacity
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