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The edge of chaos is the constantly shifting
battle zone between stagnation and anarchy, the
one place where a complex system can be spontaneous,
adaptive, and alive.
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カオスの縁は、間断なく移動していく「停滞と
アナーキーの間にある戦場」であり、複雑系が
自発的、適応的であり得るところ、活気を帯びる
ところである。
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But they all shere the vision of an underlying unity,
a common theoretical flamework for complexity that
would illuminate nature and humankind alike. They
believe that they have in hand the mathematical tools
to create such a flamework, drawing from the past
twenty years of intellectual ferment in such fields
as neural networks, ecology, artificial intelligence,
and chaos theory. They believe that their application
of these ideas is allowing them to understand the
spontaneous, self-organizing dynamics of the world in
a way that no one ever has before---with the
potential for immense impact on the conduct of
economics, buisiness, and even politics. They believe
that they are forging the first rigorous alternative
to the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has
dominated science since the time of Newton---and that
has now gone about believe they are creating, in
the words of Santa Fe Institue founder George Cowan,
``the sciences of the twenty-first century.''
This is their story.