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Old 04-28-2005, 03:51 PM   #8
Happy Monkey
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
The order is the thing. Order can't come from chaos,
Given a set of physical laws, points of local order can form in a chaotic environment. Conway's "Life" illustrates this. Starting with a completely random board, you will usually get small orderly areas appearing and disappearing, simply because for every rule set there are certain combinations of factors that have unique behaviors. The larger a chaotic field you have, the likelier it is that a particular combination of factors will appear somewhere in it.
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