and, has no such connection. L.-sensitivity — in particular, the Liapunov exponent — is profoundly incisive in the analysis of intricate feedback systems such as turbulent flow.
However, speaking philosophically, it seems that when studying a system containing feedback
on the level of structure as well as the level of physical parameters, one should consider
unpredictability on the level of structure as well as the level of numerical parameters.
In conclusion, I would like to make the following conjecture: that when the logic relating self-
organization with unpredictability is untangled, it will turn out that real highly self-organizing systems (society, the brain, the ecosystem, etc.) are highly Liapunov sensitive, structurally sensitive and R.S.-sensitive, but are not nearly so highly S.S.-sensitive. That is: roughly speaking, it should turn out that by studying the structure of the past, one can tell something about the structure of the future, but by tracking or attempting to predict specific events one will get nowhere.