Truly random number sequences are difficult to qenerate. Computers produce only approaches to it, with some residual order. Only natural phenomena produce truly random sequences. (Scientific American, October 1998, articles on cryptography. )
Below, I present a possible scale.
| Order | bifurcations | chaos (1 equation) | high-degree chaos | true randomness | ||||||||||
| (2, 4, 8, 16…very large) | (several to many equ’s) | (infinite no. of equ’s) | ||||||||||||
Is that how it is?
In this scheme life is between many bifurcations and chaos, while the weather, history, the stock exchange, and computer-generated “random” sequences are between chaos and high-degree chaos. Even high-degree chaos is still deterministic (if we follow the iterations), but true randomness is not.
Thus, while true order (perfection) is nearly unattainable (even crystals have defects), true randomness is likewise, in spite of the entropy law.
In fact, randomness is the most complex system, logically wholly incompressible.