My take is that different systems respond to changes in initial conditions (or more practically: perturbations) differently.
Biological systems regulate themselves and reduce the impact of (sufficiently small) perturbations to zero over time.
Normal physical systems like weather usually do not have such regulating mechanisms—at least not on the smaller scales. Here a change in initial conditions or a perturbation propagates in time and space mostly linearly. The magnitude of observed differences after time T should be proportional to T plus a delay to reach points at distance X (the amplitude would not grow unbounded but reach a maximum variability).
Technical systems can transport a small difference (mostly) unchanged over long distances in space or time. Think of digital television of an effect or a videotape of it.
Cognitive systems and evolutionary ones are left as an exercise for the reader.
Strictly speaking, for a chaotic system the magnitude of the differences should be amplified exponentially with time (with rates given by Lyapunov exponents).
My take is that different systems respond to changes in initial conditions (or more practically: perturbations) differently.
Biological systems regulate themselves and reduce the impact of (sufficiently small) perturbations to zero over time.
Normal physical systems like weather usually do not have such regulating mechanisms—at least not on the smaller scales. Here a change in initial conditions or a perturbation propagates in time and space mostly linearly. The magnitude of observed differences after time T should be proportional to T plus a delay to reach points at distance X (the amplitude would not grow unbounded but reach a maximum variability).
Technical systems can transport a small difference (mostly) unchanged over long distances in space or time. Think of digital television of an effect or a videotape of it.
Cognitive systems and evolutionary ones are left as an exercise for the reader.
Strictly speaking, for a chaotic system the magnitude of the differences should be amplified exponentially with time (with rates given by Lyapunov exponents).