Is Interactivity Chaotic?
My freshman seminar is about the Mathematics of Chaos, and when I was reading Chapter 5 of Avatars of Story, I noticed a relationship between chaos and interactivity. Now, I pose a question: For something to be completely interactive, does it have to be chaotic? “Completely interactive” is a hard term to define, but I don’t think any text can be completely interactive because there has to be some story-line within the text or game. Complete interactivity then, can maybe be defined as something like a conversation between two people. The two people are in the conversation, not having any control over what the other person is saying. This idea could be replicated in a story-world, but never one hundred percent. Chaos in math though, is not complete randomness. There are patterns in it, which almost seem to make it not chaos. For example, if, in an iterated function system, which is just a function that is iterated over and over again, there is a prime period 3, which means that there is
