Chaos, non-linear, literature, and everything

[Juan Cires Martinez]

The concepts of non-linear, deterministic, chaotic and so on have well
defined meanings in science.  To those trying to apply them to
literature and other fields, I'd like to remind the words spoken here in
what no seems like three centuries ago by Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt:

 "Cameroon, for instance, has more than 200 different languages - not 
  dialects, languages, one as different from the other as English from 
  French. Most of them are dying, of course, and will be extinct soon, 
  replaced by "Yo man, what's up?". (One might be tempted to call all 
  this 'cultural entropy' but then one would simply be, once again, 
  guilty of metaphorircally incorrect interdisciplinary 
  crossfertilisation, to put it succinctly.)"

Saludos, Juan.

PS:  i) linear implies non-chaotic
     ii) non-linear does not imply non-chaotic
     iii) small changes to parameters produces large changes to output
     dees not imply chaos (my mistake) as shown in a recent post.  If
     the system is linear, the relation between changes in parameters
     and changes in output is known and continuous -- non-chaotic.