What is 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.<ref name=Ed>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eIq_DQAAQBAJ&dq=%22an+attractor+state+is%22&pg=PT191|accessdate=November 3, 2021|date=December 19, 2016|author=Rebecca L. Oxford|title=Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context|edition= 2|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=9781317515104 }}</ref><ref name=Psy>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IM_tDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22an+attractor+state+is%22&pg=PA66|publisher=MIT Press|page=66|year=2020|title=Computational Psychiatry: A Primer|isbn=9780262360715 |accessdate=November 3, 2021|editor=Peggy Series}}</ref> 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. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Mathematics]]