tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32587403.post8449560994796565091..comments2020-01-14T10:19:57.190+00:00Comments on force of circumstance: Dominic Lashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07440210711928586923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32587403.post-71064584291180405162015-07-04T13:52:27.789+01:002015-07-04T13:52:27.789+01:00I hadn't heard of that so thanks for the recom...I hadn't heard of that so thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out. Though it's a little disappointing to read in some of the online reviews that he doesn't give credit to Ilya Prigogine, who seems to have foreshadowed many of his ideas and of whom I'm a bit of a fan. Not quite sure, though, that this is exactly what I'm thinking of - I don't think the transition from liquid to gas, say, or from canter to gallop are technically examples of chaotic behaviour, I think they're something else...Dominic Lashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440210711928586923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32587403.post-37319356874659104882015-07-03T09:36:43.521+01:002015-07-03T09:36:43.521+01:00I quite enjoyed (though it's been some time) t...I quite enjoyed (though it's been some time) the book How Nature Works by Per Bak. He approaches complex systems through a theory of self-organized criticality (jerking at particular points of randomly accumulating force). Thumbing thru the pages: Chaos is not complexity, Dogs on an elastic string, Norwegian rice piles, Is life a self-organized critical phenomenon? Fractal behavior of traffic jams ... still looks good, I should reread it.Lutz Eitelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18265424358386584255noreply@blogger.com