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Basin Entropy

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Basin entropy is a quantitative measure of how unpredictable a system's basins of attraction are, computed by sampling grid cells and measuring the diversity of outcomes among their neighbors. High basin entropy that persists even as you zoom in indicates a genuinely fractal, unpredictable boundary rather than noise that smooths out at finer resolution — the key evidence used to argue that a system's outcome map stays mixed at every scale.

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