“CHAOS in modern Systems Theory defines the state of a system in which its stable cycles and processes give way to complex, seemingly unordered behavior, governed by so-called strange or chaotic attractors. In this state, the system is responsive to tiny, sometimes immeasurably small fluctuations.
A CHAOS-WINDOW - in the human context, ‘decision-window’ - is a transitory period in the evolution of a system during which any input or influence, however small, can ‘blow up’ to change existing trends and bring new trends and processes into existence.
A CHAOS POINT, in turn, is the crucial point in the evolution of a system in which trends which have brought the system to its present state break down and it can no longer return to its prior states and modes of behavior: It is launched irreversibly on a new trajectory that leads either to breakdown or to breakthrough to a new structure and a new mode of operation.”
…Ervin Laszlo - The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads: Seven Years to Avoid Global Collapse and Promote Worldwide Renewal.