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by steve_gh 1407 days ago
>I believe that this is a fundamental problem of testing in all distributed systems: you are trying to test and validate for emergent behaviour. The other term we have for such systems is: chaotic. Good luck with that

Emergent behaviour is complex, not chaotic. Chaos comes from sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Complexity is associated with non-ergodic statistics (i.e. sampling across time gives different results to sampling across space).

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Thank you for the correction. And indeed, "complex" would have been the right term. My bad.