Ya gotta love a folksinger site that can stir up this much chat on such an arcane topic. I think I agree with Wolfgang that this stab at the subject is unsat. But what it COULD do is most faskinating, because it addresses the least understood phenomenon in all science, IMHO -- the ability to know, which is sometimes a variable that seems to operate independent of data.

While it is true that chaos is not unpredictable if you know the increments and can map the attractors, I think it is fair to say that normal human interactions never involve those mathematics as an approach, consciously. Intuitive leaps, as they are called in common parlance, sometimes seem to leave us knowing things we have no reason to know, whether by fancy extrapolation or some other mechanism. Cognates include serenditpitous encounters, synchronicity, and other bits of New Age babble. Food for reflection, as the man said when he threw his sandwich at the mirror.

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