It carries the ubiquitous nature of cause and effect to its logical extreme by rejecting the concept of discontinuity. What appears to be discontinuity is not an abrupt break with the past but the logical consequence of preceding events. Tiny variations in your hand, skin, hairs can vastly affect the outcome, illustrating the unpredictability of nature. There is no way to predict which way the water will roll. There is nonlinearity between cause and effect.
Tiny causes can lead to big effects.
L. Douglas Kiel helps us to understand the nonlinear dynamics of complex administrative systems by graphically quantifying work processes in the communications division of an Oklahoma state agency. For our purposes, Figure 1d is the key to be looked at. A nonlinear system in a chaotic phase does not retrace previous identifiable sequences of behavior. In short, chaotic behavior appears quite random and without pattern. Chaotic behavior thus appears extremely disorderly because patterns over time, one symbol of orderliness, are nonexistent.