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>A fascinating idea! An experiment to study the Butterfly Effect on the >Web. I like it! /Roger In a way the environment to study this already exists at google, what with its monitors showing search patterns in nearly real time I suppose. This is analogous to an environment modeling computation, and also matches the needs of most complexity studies for an output consumable by human sense, generally visual or aural, as computers are not fine tuned enough yet to discern the patterns in the data they 'see'. James' pointer to the Scientific American study is also interesting; I remembered reading it once it was pointed to. I wonder if such Chain letter studies when taken further will allow one to pinpoint likely origins of Chain letters (given that the first poster in a chain could be a spoof.)
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