otic attractors of brain dynamics lead to the finding that most often, only one “leading Lyapounov exponent,” 4(+), is reliably computable (Sano and Sawada, 1885; Wolf et al, 1985; Eckmann et al, 1986). A counter-intuitive fact about the stability of a dynamical system when a decrease in the value of 4(

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