Chapter 7 Notes

	Notes for Chapter 7: Mechanisms in Programs and Nature Section 1 Universality of Behavior 967 Section 2 Three Mechanisms for Randomness 967 Section 3 Randomness from the Environment 968 Section 4 Chaos Theory and Randomness from Initial Conditions 970 Section 5 The Intrinsic Generation of Randomness 973 Section 6 The Phenomenon of Continuity 976 Section 7 Origins of Discreteness 981 Section 8 The Problem of Satisfying Constraints 984 Section 9 Origins of Simple Behavior 988 RELATED LINKS Main text from chapter Downloadable programs for this chapter Downloadable images Search Forum for this chapter Post a comment NKS | Online FAQs

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]