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{{Short description|Transition space between order and disorder}} {{for|the computer game|Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox |image = [[File:Shish-kebab-skewer-60458 640.jpg|thumb|center|alt=Edge of chaos]] |caption = {{Cquote|quote="The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Katrina |title=On the Edge of Chaos: Where Creativity Flourishes |url=https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/35462/on-the-edge-of-chaos-where-creativity-flourishes |website=KQED |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423040459/https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/35462/on-the-edge-of-chaos-where-creativity-flourishes |archive-date=23 April 2022 |date=6 May 2014}}</ref>|author=<small>Dr. Robert Bilder, Professor at the UCLA [[Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior]]</small>}} }} The '''edge of chaos''' is a transition space between order and [[Randomness|disorder]] that is hypothesized to exist within a wide variety of systems. This transition zone is a region of bounded instability that engenders a constant dynamic interplay between order and disorder.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Complexity Labs|title=Edge of Chaos|url=http://complexitylabs.io/edge-of-chaos/.|website=Complexity Labs|access-date=24 August 2016|archive-date=15 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515022608/http://complexitylabs.io/edge-of-chaos/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Even though the idea of the edge of chaos is an abstract one, it has many applications in such fields as ecology,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay|title=Dynamics of an ecological model living on the edge of chaos|journal=Applied Mathematics and Computation|date=2009|volume= 210| issue = 2|pages=455β464|doi=10.1016/j.amc.2009.01.006}}</ref> business management,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Deragon|first1=Jay|title=Managing On The Edge Of Chaos|url=http://www.relationship-economy.com/2012/08/managing-on-the-edge-of-chaos/|website=Relationship Economy}}</ref> psychology,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lawler|first1=E.|last2=Thye|first2=S.|last3=Yoon|first3=J.|title=Order on the Edge of Chaos Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order|date=2015|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9781107433977}}</ref> [[political science]], and other domains of the [[social science]]s. Physicists have shown that adaptation to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wotherspoon|first1=T.|last2=et.|first2=al.|title=Adaptation to the edge of chaos with random-wavelet feedback|journal=J. Phys. Chem. A|date=2009|doi=10.1021/jp804420g|bibcode=2009JPCA..113...19W|volume=113|issue=1|pages=19β22|pmid=19072712}}</ref>
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