Physics week 7

Ordered chaos does sound very familiar. I think it's the refrain of every kid with a messy room. The piles of things may have no obvious order to them, but if you look for deeper patterns they are there. The order in the chaos may only be obvious to some though. I think with what we learned about fractals, all chaos has an element to order in it. The yin within the yang. And just like with yin and yang, order and chaos could not exist without the other. In fact, they are lifeless if the connection does not exist - without a speck of yin within the yang, and a speck of yang within the yin. If we think of chaotic systems as being alive, they must have this connection and interdependence between chaos and order.
The idea of consciousness out of chaos can also be put in the terms of yin and yang. What the human brain perceives is so vast and complex, and so deeply chaotic - all the sounds, colors, smells, sensations, radio waves, psychic connections, etc that come at us constantly at any given moment would seem like it would be overwhelming, but our consciousness makes some semblance of order out of it. We perceive a thing in front of us - the colors and shapes, the smells, the sounds - and put it into a pattern - we perceive a object that makes sense to us. Out of the chaos of yin, consciousness helps contain the speck of yang. However, if we think that "every point in the space-time grid is conscious," then this concept becomes much more complex. Maybe consciousness itself is the chaos. Or consciousness creates chaos. It's a fascinating mystery.

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  1. alexJuly 5, 2017 at 1:14 PM

    Oh yes, a fascinating mystery indeed!

    I enjoy how you explain things in your posts - it gets a lot clearer for me!

    It's crazy how much we can make sense of so much stimuli, but it gets ordered and we make sense of it. Every once in awhile though, it seems like something doesn't process as smoothly as it usually does. like we get glimpses of chaos in our patterned order (like why, out of nowhere do words sound strange & I can't make sense of them?)

    I love this: "just like yin and yang, order and chaos could not exist without the other. In fact, they are lifeless if the connection does not exist". Agree!

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  2. AmyJuly 10, 2017 at 10:26 AM

    I am really interested in the idea that perhaps consciousness creates chaos! Perhaps chaos is a fractal of consciousness, and thus keeps creating it's own image. The web of consciousness permeates our universe and thus chaos is embedded in all things. Is order a fractal then of consciousness as well, another aspect? What we speak of as two opposing forces are simply two faces of the same mountain.

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