Edge of chaos

"The truly creative changes and the big shifts occur right at the edge of chaos."

— Dr. Robert Bilder, Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

The edge of chaos is a transition space between order and disorder that is hypothesized to exist within a wide variety of systems. This transition zone is a region of bounded instability that engenders a constant dynamic interplay between order and disorder.

Even though the idea of the edge of chaos is an abstract one, it has many applications in such fields as ecology, business management, psychology, political science, and other domains of the social sciences. Physicists have shown that adaptation to the edge of chaos occurs in almost all systems with feedback.

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