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LIT-1972: Using chaos to direct trajectories to targets

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Cited as “grounds” byCLAIM-541 — Wu-wei is better read as control placed and timed where a system's own dynamics do most of the work than as the absence of control: Ott–Grebogi–Yorke control of chaos is a formal instance, in which small perturbations timed by the system's own wandering hold it on an unstable orbit, and the control, though small, continues for as long as the orbit is held; so reported effortlessness has at least three distinct sources, no conflict to override, conflict settled cheaply by learned accommodation, and conflict met as it arises by small well-timed feedback, which may feel alike and differ in mechanism

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Shinbrot, T., Ott, E., Grebogi, C., Yorke, J. A. (1990). Using chaos to direct trajectories to targets. Physical Review Letters, 65(26), 3215-3218. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3215.

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Not read. Nothing here reports the work’s findings; what the exchange’s replies said of it is unverified.

Standing in the record

The targeting half of chaos control: a one-shot use of sensitivity to reach a target quickly, against OGY’s holding.

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