title: Some remarks on the compatibility between determinism and unpredictability.
abstract: Determinism and unpredictability are compatible since deterministic flows can produce, if sensitive to initial conditions, unpredictable behaviors. Within this perspective, the notion of scenario to chaos transition offers a new form of predictability for the behavior of sensitive to initial condition systems under the variation of a control parameter. In this paper I first shed light on the genesis of this notion, based on a dynamical systems approach and on considerations of structural stability. I then suggest a link to the figure of epigenetic landscape, partially inspired by a dynamical systems perspective, and offering a theoretical framework to apprehend developmental noise.
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon &, IXXI, Rhône-Alpine Institute of Complex Systems, Lyon, France. Sara.Franceschelli@ens-lyon.fr
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Franceschelli
mesh_terms: D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011336:Probability