The Secret Life of Chaos

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00:03:24 indeed determined, by mathematical rules

00:05:34 to human intelligence.

00:08:14 to describe a living process.

00:10:50 the reasons why cows have this dappled pattern or whatever.

00:13:14 This couldn't be further from the truth.

00:16:01 Deep behind the iron curtain, in a lab at the Soviet Ministry of Health

00:18:24 'he received a wholly unexpected and damning response. '

00:21:04 Self-organisation seems to operate all over the natural world.

00:23:37 Scientists soon found many other equations just like it.

00:25:58 During the second half of the 20th century

00:28:46 How can a simple system that works in the regular clockwork manner

00:31:03 with nothing random in them, you know everything.

00:33:26 scientists began to look more favourably at Turing and

00:35:57 But as we zoom the camera in

00:38:32 From the '70s on, more and more scientists

00:40:42 Iike straight lines or perfect circles.

00:43:07 What if you could capture its essence to draw a picture?

00:46:05 When we look at complexities in nature, we tend to ask

00:48:29 can turn into human beings?

00:50:43 But it operates on a cosmic timescale.

00:53:08 Eventually, miraculously, you actually end up

00:55:47 produced without thought or design.

00:58:11 Well, it's that all the complexity of the universe