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name: thinker-chao-tang
description: Apply the Chao Tang: Self-Organized Criticality and Scale-Invariant Patterns article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
---

# Chao Tang: Self-Organized Criticality and Scale-Invariant Patterns

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-chao-tang). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-chao-tang.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-chao-tang/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Chao Tang Saw Chao Tang co-developed the concept of self-organized criticality with Per Bak and Kurt Wiesenfeld. The work shows how simple local rules in extended systems drive spontaneous evolution to a critical state. Avalanches of a

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-chao-tang
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-chao-tang
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-chao-tang/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-chao-tang/revisions
