Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Week 7 Chaos Thepry

"Ordered Chaos"- does it sound familiar?...I don't think there is a kid on this earth that doesn't have a full working relationship with the concept of "Ordered Chaos". Weather it is the floor of their room, or the closet, or their pile of toys, I think it is safe to say that they are completely comfortable with that perceived mess. At the same time i think it is safe to say that the parent of that same child is not ok with the pile of cloths and considers it an unacceptable mess. So can we than propose that chaos isn't about the amount of unordered items in a given space but maybe the amount of comfortability the observer has with this perceived mess?...

Fractals as patterns of complex systems... Fractals are a great way for us to begin to wrap our head around complex systems. Maybe the idea of a fractal is beneficial because of its ability to keep our perception open and large when trying to pick apart a system that has multiple layers of infinite complexity. Fractals help us to understand the big picture...

Consciousness out of chaos?...I recently watched a video on Chaos Theory where they showed experiments of chemical reactions taking place in a liquid and as time progressed the reactions made visual patterns that became more and more chaotic. But than at some point the chaos suddenly began to produce beautiful ordered patterns. If you continued to watch the reaction they than went from ordered patterns back to a chaotic state. This process continued to cycle. So i began to wonder, Is it possible that the reactions are continually the same, not necessarily ordered or chaotic, but our perception of them shifts from conscious understanding to confusion?

2 comments:

  1. Your example of ordered chaos is great. I think what it also refers to is the degree of orderliness that some are accustomed to is different to the chaotic nature that some view as normal. I personally try to stay in the middle with all of this not veering too much to either edge. And the mountain of laundry, the perceivable mass...well it accumulates until it becomes chaotic

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  2. I like the notion about comfort = order. A lot. I'm going to think about this more...

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