Matt Cramer wrote:
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> Chaos theory is most popularly misconceptualized like this - that it has
> been proven that some things are unpredictable. It is almost as often
> misconceptualized to mean that all randomness has order. Neither is
> really true. This phenomenon is similar to the way many assert that
> "Einstein proved everything is relative", which he certainly did not.
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> Matt
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Endless confusion seems to be generated by the spontaneous assumption of non-mathematicians (-physicists, biologists, etc) to realize that when a word is used in a specific scientific context it loses _all_ the meaning it carries in ordinary language. There has been an incredible amount of really stupid literary criticism written by critics who think "chaos" means chaos and "entropy" means entropy.
Carrol