...throughout our systems, causing echos in yet other interlinked systems. To quote the chaos theorists, "a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York."24 In this vast sea in which we all swim daily, what each of us does with our lives really does...

...weather in one part of the world can have major consequences for the weather over distant continents. "A butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York." James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Viking, 1987), p. 8; see also pp. 20—23. The...

...example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butterfly Effect — the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform...storm systems next month in New York (Gleick 1987, p.8). LIKE THE ACTION OF A TINY TRIM TAB ON THE RUDDER OF A GIANT ocean liner, very small, often unnoticeable...

...proportion of the total variation in any outcome (Grunbaum 1953; Hoover 1980: chap. 4). shiver about us. "A butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can...storm systems next month in New York" (Gleick 1987: 8).6 Every text (event) is related to every other text (event), as was explained in Chapter 2. In the...

...example, this translates into what is only halfjokingly known as 'The Butterfly Effect'—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York." 22 • The system must fluctuate nonlinearly. That is, the amount of energy, matter, and information...

...later on: "In weather, for example, this translates into ... the Butterfly Effect - the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform...storm systems next month in New York" (Gleick, 1987, p. 8). Also important in chaos theory are strange attractors: stable regularities toward which irregularity...

...example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butterfly Effect — the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York." Gleick J: Chaos. Making a New Science. Viking Penguin, Inc., 1987. One of the main objectives of the statistical...

...crucial parameters can lead to dramatic consequences, known as the 'Butterfly Effect - the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York' (Gleick, 1988, p. 8). There are parallels here with James Maxwell's (1882, p. 443) account of indeterminacy,...

...example, this translates in to what is only halfjokingly known as the Butterfly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York" (Cleick 1987, p. 8). CHAPTER SIX Group Choices of a Floor Constraint As we have seen, group choices...

...sense in a time when scientists have so expanded the range of possible effects from a single cause that "a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can...transform storm systems next month in New York" (Gleick 8), when psychiatrists treat emotional disturbances by chemical means, when the stock market fluctuates...