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The first definition of Chaotics seems to fit the Circles: ‘The complicated, aperiodic, attracting orbits of certain (usually low-dimensional)* dynamical systems’.** – but also: ‘Apparently random recurrent behaviour in a simple deterministic (clockwork-like) system.’***

‘These were one-dimensional maps, he thought – what bearing could they have on continuously changing systems?’****

[cf:]  

“It seemed unlikely that a two-dimensional drawing# could form an adequate representation of Life {and its multiplicity of choices}.”#*

*(Dimensions turn out to be equivalent to powers of a number.)

**P. Holmes, per Ibid [Gleick, ‘Chaos, Making a New Science’, Heinemann, London, 1988], p306

***H.B. Stewart, per Ibid, p306

****Ibid, p316

#(of the 2 Circles and 2 Crosses)

#* ‘[0]’ p134 [Journal ms insert bracketed {}]

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