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Emergence and Chaos

This topic is about how simple rules create surprising behaviour.

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Emergence is where simple rules create behaviour that feels unexpectedly rich, chaotic or alive.

Start by experimenting: change one parameter, watch what survives, and look for the moment the behaviour changes character.

Explore this through iteration, feedback and recurrence, chaos, bifurcation and sensitivity, cellular automata and local update rules.

Further exploration

Explore next: Conway's Game of Life

Look up: the logistic map bifurcation diagram

Try searching for: Wolfram elementary cellular automata