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The phrase
edge of chaos was coined by
computer scientist Christopher Langton in
1990. The phrase originally refers to an area in the range of a
variable, λ (lambda), which was varied while examining the behavior of a
cellular automaton (CA). As λ varied, the behavior of the CA went through a
phase transition of behaviors. Langton found a small area conducive to produce CAs capable of
universal computation. At around the same time
physicist James P. Crutchfield and others used the phrase
onset of chaos to describe more or less the same concept.
In the sciences in general, the phrase has come to refer to a metaphor that some
physical,
biological,
economic and
social systems operate in a region between order and complete
randomness or
chaos, where the
complexity is maximal.
The generality and significance of the idea, however, has since been called into question by
Melanie Mitchell and others. The phrase has also been borrowed by the business community and is sometimes used inappropriately and in contexts that are far from the original scope of the meaning of the term.
Stuart Kauffman has studied
mathematical models of
evolving systems in which the rate of evolution is maximized near the edge of chaos.
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