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Epilogue: Relevance of Chaos to Biology and Related Fields

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Dynamics of Hierarchical Systems

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Although a strange attractor as an object of observation frustrates the (naive) observer, due to his practical inability to deduce reliable predictions from a series of measurements he performs on the system, a strange attractor as a cognitive device possessed by the observer plays exactly the opposite role, namely it gives rise to the compressibility of seemingly chaotic sequences of observed phenomena.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Professor Dr. John S. Nicolis

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Nicolis, J.S. (1986). Epilogue: Relevance of Chaos to Biology and Related Fields. In: Dynamics of Hierarchical Systems. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69692-3_7

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