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Is that true in chaos theory though? Are there mathematical ways to create and predict dynamic systems with behavior that is truly bound within certain parameters?

Kind of... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_chaos

There was some hype about this in the 90s, but not much seems to have come from it in terms of practical applications. However it is really cool from a theoretical perspective, and some of the experiments (IIRC precisely controlling chaotic contraction patterns in heart tissue from rabbits in vitro) were also really interesting.



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