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Chapter 6: Starting from Randomness
Section 7: The Notion of Attractors


*[Attractors in] discrete systems

*Implementation [of cellular automaton state networks]

*Finite automata

*Regular languages

*Regular expressions

*Generating functions [for regular languages]

*History [of finite automata]

*[Cellular automaton state] network properties

*Excluded blocks [in cellular automaton evolution]

*Entropies and dimensions [in cellular automata]

*Cycles and zeta functions

*2D generalizations [of entropies]

*Probability-based entropies

*Entropy estimates

*Nested structure of attractors

*Surjectivity and injectivity [of cellular automaton maps]

*Temporal sequences [in cellular automata]

*Spacetime patches [in cellular automata]

*History [of dynamical systems approaches]

*Attractors in systems based on numbers

*Iterated maps

*Attractors in Turing machines

*[State networks for] systems of limited size

*Symmetries [and state networks]

*[State networks for] shift rules

*[State networks for] additive rules

*[Properties of] random networks



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