Note 4

Other dynamical laws, for instance those of Cellular Automatons and Random Boolean Systems (see for them, First Part of Website ),  are not given in the form of an equation, but in a totally different form, namely in the form of  IF ... THEN ...  ( = If  the encountered neighborhood configuration belonging to some cell of the system, is, say the configuration  00110,  then at the next moment in time the cell in question receives the value, say, 1,  but if the original neighborhood configuration of that cell turns out to be, say,  11110,  then the value becomes, say, 0,  but if ... etc.). In order to get to know the dynamic behavior of such a system, we cannot, as with the dynamical laws in the form of equations, proceed analytically ( = solving the equation -- not all equations are, however, soluble, especially many so-called non-linear differential equations), but must simulate the system on a computer, and then see what the dynamical behavior is like.

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