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e904952p@hjc.edu.sg wrote:

 
> I am a high school student doing a project on non-linear dynamic systems
> and chaos theory. In studying complex (and often non-linear) systems, I
> couldn�t help but being fascinated by the existence of living organisms. I
> am yet to finish my high school and I guess I don't know much. However it
> seems pretty much a miracle to me that life simply came into existence all
> of a sudden-----and so quickly after earth became comfortable enough for
> living things to develop.


    .... [snip] ....


> Since far-from-equilibrium systems has a
> tendency to go through bifurcations and 'jump' to some other (stable)
> states, and living organisms are all open systems that are far from
> equilibrium, I somehow feel that they are related. I am tempted to
> construct some computational model to simulate living organisms, but I
> couldn't think of how to start. Right now I'm still doing Lorenz attractor
> and logistic equations and Henon maps.
> I'd like very much  that someone help me along the way.


Go to the library and get hold of the book

    "ORDER OUT OF CHAOS"
     Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (1984).


This will assist your research
and provide the necessary background
as you have outlined above.



All the best with it.





Pete Brown
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