“Empirical dynamic modeling, Sugihara said, can reveal hidden causal relationships that lurk in the complex systems that abound in nature.”
This approach for prediction throws out the equations, and uses a different kind of approach to find order in chaotic systems. The process includes the gathering of enough historical data to make more reliable predictions. To me, it sounds similar in some ways to some of the processes that feed into the field of AI, or Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/chaos-theory-in-ecology-predicts-future-populations-20151013/
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