Attractor state

An attractor state is something that systems do.  An attractor state is a way of being or moving that will stay the way it is unless something else comes in and changes it.  Systems form attractor states on their own.

For example, if a pendulum is swinging in a large clock, and someone taps the pendulum a little, it might stop swinging for a moment, but once the person pulls their finger away, it will go back to swinging.

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