Fractals are complex patterns in which each individual component of the pattern is repeated at smaller and smaller structural levels to infinity. Similarly, while the behavior of a system attracted to a "strange attractor" is chaotic, with unpredictable changes from one moment to the next, it reflects back and forth through gradually smaller structures and occurs within a certain range or range of possibilities.
Let's go back to the sudden explosion of noise from an electronic machine in the case of a sound amplifier connected to a loudspeaker. Electronics engineers know the phenomenon as "clipping." This occurs when sound emanating from a properly functioning and orderly array of machines is suddenly flooded by random "noise." Then, the random noise may suddenly stop, and the machine returns to its state...