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This 6 page paper examines chaos theory and relates it to the shootings at Virginia Tech and argues that the violence could be considered as an example of an unpredicted change in a complex system. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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good for humanity, sometimes not, but if we look at them carefully enough, its possible to trace connections among them. This paper will do just that: it examines chaos theory
and relates it to the shootings at Virginia Tech and argues that the violence could be considered as an example of an unpredicted change in a complex system. Chaos Theory
Chaos theory may have gotten its biggest boost from the movies: the character of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in Jurassic Park is a chaos theorist. Chaos theory, as is
now well known, is a way to try and explain the unpredictability that occurs in certain systems. One small event can cause a change that changes something else, which changes
something else, and so on, until the events become large enough to be significant. We want to consider human society as a system under study. "In the analysis of complex
systems there is often an emphasis on the plasticity and adaptability of the system. Coupled with perspectives from chaos theory - like the sensitivity to initial conditions, critical organization, bifurcations,
and fractal complexity - this has led to a general understanding of complex systems as something in constant flux and susceptible to rapid change" (Cilliers 105). Cilliers suggests that while
these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (Cilliers). If a system is to exist, "it cannot
merely reflect its environment and the changes therein, it must also resist some of these changes" (Cilliers 105). The need to remain impervious to change in some areas is not
always recognized or appreciated in a culture such as ours, where speed is valued and where everything that is slow is also considered inefficient (Cilliers). Cilliers goes on to explore
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