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by nyrikki 1224 days ago
No, you are most likely correct, I personally haven't found anything that even gives a reason to hope. But as reductionism and Laplacian Determinism are taught as cannon and not as the best option I sugar coated it.

The Wada property arising in simple models like predator/prey models with simple added factors like fear/cover probably also suggests that even simple models may be indeterminate at least with binary operations like modern algebra is based on.

Three attractors or exit basins can make this unintuitive topological feature pop up. Note that that fractal behavior is topological and not scale invariant noise like is typically studied with topics like fractal scattering.

Indecomposable continua like the Wada property aren't solvable with probabilistic models using automata like in the standard model, which is lucky enough to have less than three exit basins.

Here is one fairly accessable paper on the Wada property.

Hopefully some n-ary algebras may come forward to deal with restricted problems, but even if we could create a logically consistent model of arithmetic, binary operations will still be indeterminate with feature like the Wada property even with perfect knowledge of initial conditions.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365233050_Organized...