Why are some activation functions also chaotic maps?

Question

Today I was reading about dynamical systems and I've realized that some activation functions for neural networks, such as the logistic function [0], are also chaotic maps [1]. Is this just a coincidence or is there an advantage if an activation function is a chaotic map?[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map

yorwba · Accepted Answer

The logistic function and logistic map are two different functions that are only tangentially related.