*head buzzing*...Chaos theory is the most slippery thing I ever tried to look at, (and I almost wrote a masters thesis on Whitehead's metaphysics).... I went to this page and started thru the outline, but my brain just has not dealt with those kind of concepts in ages.

I do see the general idea of self-adjusting systems, and by extensive use of metaphor, I can relate it to Mudcat's wild personality swings, which always seem to avoid total destruction.

I can also see why you might expect those forces to 'adjust' the situation in the situations alluded to in the 'Malthusian Panic' (ohhh..that is low!) thread. ....but in both cases, I forsee the situation where no dynamic equilibrium that may occur, and no particular 'phase change' is likely to prove satisfactory to a majority of the sentient observers involved.

The system dynamics may fall well within predicted models of stability and thus be described as avoiding chaos AS A SYSTEM, but still highly unsatisfactory subjectively.