Abstract
In his report Professor Chirikov raises a number of important scientific and epistemological issues stemming from recent developments of chaos theory. In this short comment I would like to take up three items which I regard of special interest from the perspective of the implications of chaos research in different branches of science:
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The status of biological processes with respect to the laws of physics;
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The status of the statistical description in general;
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The statistical properties of complex systems giving rise to bifurcations and chaos.
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Nicolis, G. (1996). Natural laws and the physics of complex systems comments on the report by B. Chirikov. In: Weingartner, P., Schurz, G. (eds) Law and Prediction in the Light of Chaos Research. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101867
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