And because these amazing pattern similarities
happen in a chaotic system, they can neither be predicted, nor controlled.
Not exact matches
Moreover, what
happens to an individual car is highly dependent on the weight of its passengers and where they sit — a characteristic of
chaotic systems,
in which small changes
in the starting conditions produce wildly different results.
The
system is revealed slowly, so that, even
in its most
chaotic latter stages, an able player will be able to keep track of precisely what is
happening among the firework display of particles and barked war - cries.
It looks scarier than it is, it is just what
happens as you approach equilibrium
in a
chaotic system.
If the whole
system of coming to a consensus that leads to meaningful actions is looked at from a chaos theory perspective, I think this so called «bump» may lead to a more
chaotic and unpredictable state of affairs for a while longer... i.e., we can't predict what is «likely» to
happen in the court of public / policy maker opinion for a more extended period before settling down.