I had never heard of that term, but after a little research ... absolutely! The dynamics are fractal--the global population is made up of sub-populations (e.g. nations) which themselves are made up of smaller populations, which are made up of individuals, which are made up of neurons, etc. Things like individuals and neurons are themselves what appear to be called "chaotic attractors" in that they demonstrate seemingly random behaviors (i.e. they are locally unstable), yet there is "global stability" (i.e. the aggregate of these behaviors is stable). Waves emerge as a consequence of this stability. Because the global behavior never deviates too far from the present state it either moves in one direction or the other. Typically the state moves in the direction that has "momentum" until, of course, it runs out of momentum (or "energy") at which point it reverses course and heads in the other direction for as long as that momentum lasts, resulting in a wave-like pattern. What I am discussing in this video is essentially that people tend to fixate on the chaotic attractors which are effectively random and therefore meaningless, instead of focusing on the nature of the global stability. A+++++++ comment! (Special thanks to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor#Strange_attractor)
It is like when you are working in ANY field and you go from nothing to extremely busy yet the fact that you are busy is not because of an advertisement or the customers knowing each other. People sometimes call it clustering. I am a chaos and stochastics fan so I always chuckled and called it strange attractors. Nice to see OTHER things to link together. I've seen this happen SO many times I am definitely convinced there is something to it. So yes, you are onto something here.
I had never heard of that term, but after a little research ... absolutely! The dynamics are fractal--the global population is made up of sub-populations (e.g. nations) which themselves are made up of smaller populations, which are made up of individuals, which are made up of neurons, etc. Things like individuals and neurons are themselves what appear to be called "chaotic attractors" in that they demonstrate seemingly random behaviors (i.e. they are locally unstable), yet there is "global stability" (i.e. the aggregate of these behaviors is stable). Waves emerge as a consequence of this stability. Because the global behavior never deviates too far from the present state it either moves in one direction or the other. Typically the state moves in the direction that has "momentum" until, of course, it runs out of momentum (or "energy") at which point it reverses course and heads in the other direction for as long as that momentum lasts, resulting in a wave-like pattern. What I am discussing in this video is essentially that people tend to fixate on the chaotic attractors which are effectively random and therefore meaningless, instead of focusing on the nature of the global stability. A+++++++ comment! (Special thanks to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor#Strange_attractor)
It is like when you are working in ANY field and you go from nothing to extremely busy yet the fact that you are busy is not because of an advertisement or the customers knowing each other. People sometimes call it clustering. I am a chaos and stochastics fan so I always chuckled and called it strange attractors. Nice to see OTHER things to link together. I've seen this happen SO many times I am definitely convinced there is something to it. So yes, you are onto something here.