The author analyzed systematically the present status of the four research areas of self - organized criticality , transient chaos , the edge of chaos and weak chaos in the science of complexity and concluded that , the four research areas are actually different approaches for probing into the essence of the same problem ? the spatio - temporal evolution of open , far - from - equilibrium , interacting , large , dissipative dynamical systems in nature 笔者对复杂性科学中的自组织临界性、瞬态混沌、混沌边缘和弱混沌四大理论和研究领域就其发展现状和最近动态作系统和深入的剖析后得出结论，认为以上四者是对自然界中开放、远离平衡、相互作用的巨大耗散动力学系统的时空演化这个统一事物的本质的面面观。
When we have meat before us and such eatables we receive the impression , that this is the dead body of a fish , and this is the dead body of a bird or of a pig ; and again , that this falernian is only a little grape juice , and this purple robe some sheep ' s wool dyed with the blood of a shell - fish : such then are these impressions , and they reach the things themselves and penetrate them , and so we see what kind of things they are 当肉食摆在我们面前，令人馋涎欲滴时，一个念头出现在我们头脑中：这是一条鱼的尸体，或一只鸟的尸体，或一头猪的尸体，而且，这杯法勒恩酒不过是少许葡萄汁，这件紫袍不过是用贝类的血浸染过的羊毛：这些念头在那里，它们自己达于事物，渗透事物，如此我们才看清事物的本质。
