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You are remembering the ergodic hypothesis in thermodynamics, whereI think the name originated and then was generalized.



Is there a relationship?


In a sense. Ergodic hypothesis is basically that the phase space is explored "equally" (in a precise sense), over time. Ergodic random processes are pretty much independent of their initial state. So at a hand-wavy level its a very similar idea.




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