Can chaos mechanics give us insight into our own pesonal behavior?

Answer 1

Great question. I would say, qualitatively it can. Take this scenario. You drive home every day for years, and turn left on Hawthorn St. Then on Thursday you turn on Elm St. Why? You weren't thinking about what path to take home, you just did it for some reason. Most people experience things like this all the time. Why? Can you pinpoint the change in the conditions that caused you to take a different path? Maybe, but there are times when it is probably something so random and so small that you don't even notice. A slight change in the initial conditions leads to a deviation.

If you want to take things farther, you could claim that there are many decisions that people make every day which are based on insignificant reasons, and the outcomes are almost random. Go even farther, and I will claim that women are more chaotic in their thinking than men. Simply for the reason that men have a peculiar strong environmental instigator for decision making stuck between their legs. You can predict with great efficiency what a man is thinking about. Yes, the order restoring phallus, destroying male mental chaos everywhere!

Answer 2

Flocking behavior is already being used to see how people respond in certain situations, for example when entering or exiting sports stadiums.

If however you mean at an individual level the answer is no, chaos theory works in a statistical manner to allow us to see the patterns in chaotic systems. As such it is useful for predicting multiple events or complex systems' behaviors as a result of simple rules but not how any individual happens to act specifically in a situation. It is however related to how neural networks learn which are being used to model many human behaviors and processes.