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Chaos Arcana

There are thirteen Chaos Arcana frames that serve as wildframes, modifier frames and meta-within-meta tools.

The most straightforward way to apply them would be to create dynamic spread positions on the fly: "superposition of what?", "feedback from what?", "bifurcation into what?" with multiple frames serving as inputs, outputs or environmental factors of a Chaos Arcana concept. Look to Annex A for sample spreads.

  1. Superposition: multiple valid states or perspectives are simultaneously available and probable before the system ends up with only one of them.
  2. Noise: not signal, not silence, not the absence of meaning, but something in-between, the state from which patterns emerge; half-formed, random or irrelevant ideas until the right filter is applied.
  3. Sensitivity: small inputs may trigger disproportionate responses, tiny shifts cascading into massive transformations, hidden leverage points that can rewrite whole systems.
  4. Entanglement: a deep correlation, through which changing one element affects another regardless of apparent distance, unexplainedly.
  5. Feedback: a state of systems when they respond to their own output, creating loops of self-reinforcement, loops that can amplify into runaway growth or spiral into stability.
  6. Edge of Chaos: a zone between known and unknown, rigid order and complete randomness, where complex systems can truly create and adapt.
  7. Phase Transition: a sudden change of state, the point where a system's fundamental properties are qualitatively transformed.
  8. Emergence: when interactions create properties that no component has alone, complexity arises spontaneously, unpredictable new levels of order born from simple interactions.
  9. Attractor: an invisible center that pulls scattered points into coherence, a gravity well in the landscape of possibility, stable patterns that systems naturally drift toward.
  10. Bifurcation: a critical point where one path becomes many, a moment that forks a single future into multiple and fundamentally different ones.
  11. Fractal: self-similar patterns repeating across all scales, same underlying architecture found on any zoom level.
  12. Breakdown: when systems can no longer maintain coherence, collapse under their own weight, dissolve and fall apart to reveal their fundamental components.
  13. Dissipation: gradual spreading and weakening of concentrated energy or information, transition from focused force to ambient influence, spreading thin.