The chaos theory shows us that nature most often works in patterns, which are caused by the sum of many tiny pulses, like butterfly wings. Sometimes I think that the earth is so complex and that the only way to predict her nature is that it is unpredictable. The chaos theory looks at these unpredictable patterns. The term "ordered chaos" can be applied to not only nature, but human body, history, art.
Fractals as patterns of complex systems is how we get order from disorder. Fractals can be used to create or be used to describe seemingly random patterns. Consciousness out of chaos, if I understand this correctly, is what Carl Jung was saying with his archetypes. In another way, we can look at our daily routine and say we have the perfect partner, a lovely place to live, fantastic job, but a sick dog. Maybe conciousness out of chaos should be conciousness out of "unbalanced". It's funny how one event that occurs can affect our daily routine, and suddenly our world seems like a disaster.
So with the help of a four year old boy, I did some of the experiements online on littleshop. We (unsuccessfully) tried dragging a 70 pound dog across the room to create static, an imbalance of positive and negative charges. Making a straw flute was not successful either, but we did do the Cartesian Diver and it worked. Basically playing with pressure inside the water bottle and a packet of ketchup made the packet float or sink. The site said that this is how submarines control their own depth.
Did you see that movie, "The Butterfly Effect"? It seemed to be more about like, time travel, but they gave it this title like a little change in the course of things could change what happened in his life. It's cute when movie people pretend to throw deep scientific concepts into their goals of entertainment and fail! I agree with you--suddenly my day is hell and I try to sit around and contemplate what happened! And I'm big into planning, too!
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