PHY 28B
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@ucdavis.edu; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 32: The Role of the Future in the Analysis of Chaotic Dynamical Systems
Ryan James, Physics, UC Davis

Reading: CMR article Anatomy.

Topics:

  1. Background: What is a process?
  2. Dissection of the present
  3. Decomposition of the present
  4. Computing rates
  5. Example decompositions: Logistic, Tent and Lozi maps
  6. Scaling behavior in the Tent map
  7. Computing the bound information analytically