Can We Act Ethically? Implications of Determinism, Chaos Theory and Unintended Consequences

Should We Fear the Unintended Consequences of MACRA?

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is upon us. Almost. Beginning this month, our quality performance in 2017 will affect our payments under MACRA when it officially launches in 2019. In this issue (page 12), Amy Mullins, MD, outlines the mind-numbing complexity of the two MACRA payment tracks, called the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternativ...

How Can We Observe and Describe Chaos?

There exist several trials to describe chaos appeared in classical or quantum dynamical systems [?]. One of the present authors introduced Information Dynamics(ID for short) [18] as a frame to discuss complexity and chaos appeared in various fields, in which he tried to find a common basis by synthesizing the state change (dynamics) and the complexity associated with dynamical systems. Since th...

DECOHERENCE, DETERMINISM and CHAOS Revisited

We suggest that the derivation of the free space Maxwell Equations for classical electromagnetism, using a discrete ordered calculus developed by L.H.Kauffman and T.Etter, necessarily pushes the discussion of determinism in natural science down to the level of relativistic quantum mechanics and hence renders the mathematical phenomena studied in deterministic chaos research irrelevant to the qu...

Unintended Consequences.

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...