Does Chaos (randomness) really exist?
Or is it just really complex order?
Ppl sometimes say well look at a river, the water flows chaotically. But does it? Isn’t it just really complex order?
Ppl sometimes say look at fractal images, they can be chaotic. But are they truly chaotic/random? The only way to prove it is to expand the sample size to infinity, then you can prove that the formula doesn’t repeat itself.
Ppl sometimes say look at random number generators on calculators. But you would have to generate random numbers forever to prove that the sequence of numbers doesn’t repeat itself. And in fact some calculators do start repeating themselves within a few hours.
Does Order exist?
And what is order? Why can’t order be called chaos? And what if order, when followed through forever, just dissolves into randomness, and the order that you saw was actually a random glitch that looked like a recognisable, ordered sequence?
Border of Order
If there are isolated bits of chaos in the universe, then what does the border between chaos and order look like? Is it really possible to have a border between chaos and order? Cos surely, when chaos hits the border with order, it becomes ordered, because it sticks to its border.
If a little island of chaos suddenly appeared in an ordered universe, wouldn’t it instantly engulf the whole universe, because there can’t be any border between order and chaos?
Similarly, if a little island of order suddenly appeared in a chaotic unverse, wouldn’t it instantly engulf the whole universe, because there can’t be any border between chaos and order? :weee:
Oh yeah, also: I reckon that the reason why some victims of serious crime try to speak with the perpetrator of that crime is because: They can’t bear the thought of the slightest bit of chaos existing in the universe, because that would mean the whole universe is chaotic, because there can’t be a border between chaos and order. Chaos = not understanding why the criminal did what he did.
