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More to the point, there are a variety of systems where the territory displays a degree of sensitive dependence on initial conditions at some scale that makes a stable map impossible.
In fact, on astronomical time scales the dynamics of the solar system (or generally, any multi-body gravitational system) displays such behaviors.