Bifurcations as Catastrophes

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• bifurcation of natureconcept0.801
  Alfred North Whitehead's term for the split between objective and subjective; Alexander claims living structure bridges this gap.
• bifurcation theoryconcept0.793
  A mathematical theory that might identify natural breakpoints in system development, relevant to levels of scale.
• Existential Catastropheconcept0.787
  A drastic curtailment of future value; failure to create super-beneficiaries could constitute one from an impersonal utilitarian view
• Catastrophe Theoryframework0.775
  René Thom's mathematical framework describing discontinuous structural transitions; cited to show that even catastrophes preserve underlying wholeness smoothly
• Even mathematical catastrophes always begin as features consistent with the symmetries of the earlier state and develop smoothly from within the existing wholeness.claim0.767
  Alexander's response to the apparent counter-examples from catastrophe theory: discontinuities are themselves structure-preserving at a deeper level
• catastrophic forgettingconcept0.762
  Machine learning problem, avoided in biology via polycomputing adding new interpretations.
• Formulating a prior intention constitutes a catastrophic bifurcation—a phase change in cognitive organization—analogous to Bénard cell emergence.hypothesis0.756
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way — it is a categorical and mathematical must.claim0.723