January 01, 2017 at 02:56PM

"In nature, there are no linear systems outside the mineral world." #readingToday

The best example of a nonlinear system is the weather. We can estimate how likely it is that the weather will be in a certain state in the future, and the current state of the system is a function of past states (i.e., it has a memory), but we still cannot predict its future trajectory with certainty. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for scientists, brains are nonlinear. In nature, there are no linear systems outside the mineral world.

"Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing" by Andrew Smart

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