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> > BTW is "the decision" ie management plan, an attractor?
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> Good idea, but are we talking Complexity or Chaos?
> Is the management plan an emergent phenomenon, or an attractor? Both?
Neither?
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Is complexity not applying chaos to systems involving lots and lots of
elements. eg the butterfly effect is a feature of chaos, but the weather is
emergence in the complex system of the atmosphere? And are not attractor
states "emergent" phenomena which tend to occur relatively frequently?
If we take "the decision". This emerges from the consultation. But we
actually make it occur because we know it is necessary. Whether to
prescribe, refer, review etc emerges from our interaction with the patient.
A limited number of options emerge, ?=attractor.
Maybe, in the end we constrain the interactions to such an extent, by are
need to satisfy certain medical, ethical, social and financial criteria
that using terms like emergence and attractors may be stretching them too
far. Are we inevitably "forcing equilibrium" onto the complex system of the
consultation?
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> A puzzle.
Indeed!!
Dan
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