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1. The document discusses chaos theory and the butterfly effect using an example of a cyclist who was paralyzed from an accident caused by a drunk driver. It explains how seemingly unrelated events can be interconnected and lead to unpredictable outcomes, like the cyclist's training being disrupted by the crash. 2. It also discusses how the butterfly effect shows that small inputs can have large, unpredictable impacts in complex systems like the weather. The flapping of a butterfly's wings could influence a hurricane. 3. Finally, it explains that chaos theory looks at transitions between order and disorder, and that it breaks down barriers between scientific disciplines by exploring fractal patterns and complex systems in nature.

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Assignment 3

1. The document discusses chaos theory and the butterfly effect using an example of a cyclist who was paralyzed from an accident caused by a drunk driver. It explains how seemingly unrelated events can be interconnected and lead to unpredictable outcomes, like the cyclist's training being disrupted by the crash. 2. It also discusses how the butterfly effect shows that small inputs can have large, unpredictable impacts in complex systems like the weather. The flapping of a butterfly's wings could influence a hurricane. 3. Finally, it explains that chaos theory looks at transitions between order and disorder, and that it breaks down barriers between scientific disciplines by exploring fractal patterns and complex systems in nature.

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ART 375 assignment 3

1. In my Chaos Theory diagram above, I roughly sketch out the connection between
a cyclist riding his bike on a path he uses everyday in efforts to lose weight in
accordance with a drunk, recently divorced husband who crashes his car on the
path. On the right side of the diagram you see a continuous spiral and on the left
side you see another continuous spiral that goes on infinitely. In Lorenz’s theory
he finds that “over long periods, the spin can reverse itself many times, never
settling down to a steady rate and never repeating itself in any predictable
pattern” (Gleick 27). The idea that anything can have an unpredictable outcome
no matter how out of reach the “relationship” may seem. The cyclist had hopes of
training more to lose weight to eventually be in a cycling marathon but because
of the unexpected drunk driver, he is now paralyzed from the waist down. The
chaos theory is meant to teach us to expect the unexpected. We can explain this
by saying if the drunk husband hadn't been recently divorced, he wouldn't have
been in a bar drinking and then driving on the road to cause this accident. A
series of unexpected events in 2 separate variables somehow aligned to cause a
different and chaotic outcome. Chaos theory explores not only disorder but the
transition between order and disorder- a better way to explain is how everything
the cyclist was doing was safe and correct but still disorder happened from
another variable intertwining with his goal.
2. The Butterfly Effect is the idea that two or more different variables can have
nonlinear impacts on each other in complex ways. Gleick proposes this butterfly
effect using weather as an example. In his study of predicting weather the inputs
and outputs were usually the same but eventually they diverged. That is why we
now know why weather is typically unpredictable because of the different causes
and effects that take place. This soon came to the study of how if a butterfly
happens to flap its wings in a certain part of the world at a certain time then at a
certain time the hurricane patterns in the Atlantic will be completely different.
3. Gleick calls “Chaos” a new science because it's a new complex way of viewing
the world and the causes and effects of all the sciences (physics, chemistry,
biology etc.). Gleick further explains that “chaos breaks across the lines that
separate scientific disciplines” (Gleick 5). He argues that chaos breaks these
barriers between science and nature and defies these accepted ways of thinking
in “pattern”. Chaos is a new science because it created its own language of
fractals, bifurcations, intermittences, periodicities, folded-towel diffeomorphisms
and smooth noodle maps. In standard science is typically seen as a state of
being whereas chaos is the process or transition, nature of systems.
4. Bonus: When DeLanda says “non-organic life” they mean it has structures similar
to a body that doesn’t have organs to keep it alive per se. An example of one is a
hurricane, it is complex and lasts long although it doesn't have the function to
necessarily breathe in oxygen like humans do. It does have other components
like blowing a direction for a long period of time.

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