> wish it had a name because I have observed it frequently, but upon some reflection it really only seems to be the product of certain organized situations and perhaps even just an artifact of our own pattern recognition.
In The Matrix movies that is sort of a key premise of their world setting. There are words like reset, reboot, reload for it.
But I don't think it's a given, not all complex systems are prone to collapse; some systems, once past a given point, may even perpetuate their complexity practically indefinitely.
Consider life on Earth: even if a cataclysm occurs that results in mass extinctions, new life will eventually take over, in millions if not "mere" thousands or hundreds of years.
Until Earth itself no longer exists that is. Same goes for galaxies and the Universe at large.
In The Matrix movies that is sort of a key premise of their world setting. There are words like reset, reboot, reload for it.
But I don't think it's a given, not all complex systems are prone to collapse; some systems, once past a given point, may even perpetuate their complexity practically indefinitely.
Consider life on Earth: even if a cataclysm occurs that results in mass extinctions, new life will eventually take over, in millions if not "mere" thousands or hundreds of years.
Until Earth itself no longer exists that is. Same goes for galaxies and the Universe at large.