Chaos Theory

Ordered Chaos- does this sound familiar?

Autopoiesis and entropy dynamically balance each other, lending more credence towards the self-regulation of ordered chaos. Entropy spontaneously creates disorder out of ordered contexts, and autopoiesis does the opposite by spontaneously creating order from a disordered context. These two work in harmony, preventing systems from becoming static or too chaotic and relationally incompetent.

Because everything is interconnected, we would expect that chaos in one part of the system would affect another part of the system. There is a kind of complex order and probability to the patterns of chaos that emerge along the arrow of time as variables shift and affect the whole system. However, a chaotic system- is by definition- unpredictable and especially so if one tries to determine probable outcomes too far in the future. Whatever micro changes that happen to the system will most definitely affect the macrosystem, since micro and macro are inseparable.

Fractals as Patterns of Complex Systems

Fractals are very different from the solid Platonic shapes envisioned by the Greeks, ie, triangles, squares, and pyramids. When examining the details of a fractal, any particular detail of the fractal can be magnified to show yet more detail. Some fractals are self-similar in that a particular shape is repeated under greater and greater magnification. Nature has exhibited fractals in a number of natural phenomena. The human lungs, brain, and circulatory system- including the pattern of a heartbeat- all exhibit a fractal nature. Clouds, coastlines, river deltas, weather patterns, cracks in metals, electronic noise in a receiver, insterstellar dust, gusts of wind, tree branches, broccoli, and even the stock market exhibit fractal patterns.

Consciousness out of Chaos

Because consciousness helps shape physical reality down to the way sub-atomic particles behave- such changes will ultimately cause mutations to physical reality on the macro scale since micro and macro are interconnected. By affecting physical reality on a microcosmic level with our consciousness, we therefore affect physical reality of the macrocosm.

Connectionist models of thinking, based on Neural Networks in the brain- often display chaotic modes of behavior. Their Attractors are often Strange Attractors, which has led some theorists to suggest that concentration, decision-making, and commonly recognizable patterns or states of human behavior (such as personality types) may result from brain chaos. There has also been suggestions that Jungian archetypes may be strange attractors.

Online Physics Fun
The first experiment I tried was a bust, and I wound up with saliva all over my computer screen, trying to see the different colors through the drool on the magenta box. I then checked out a version of the American flag where the blue part with white stars was instead yellow with black stars; the red stripes were turquoise, and the white stripes were black. It was quite interesting to stare at the flag for a minute and then look at a white part of the computer screen to see the normal American flag in all its traditional colors, albeit a quick after-image that quickly faded from my mind's eye.