Cosmologic philosophy: chaotic beginning (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 24, 2022, 19:18 (700 days ago) @ David Turell

Our solar system was chaotic in the beginning in arranging planet arrangements:

https://nautil.us/were-it-not-for-cosmic-good-fortune-we-wouldnt-be-here-18446/

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Comment: Planned chaos or plain luck? We are here and there is so much contingency in chance events, it is easily seen as planned by the designer.

We live at the edge of chaos:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrblWQntrNHDCNqJZjVTMCFmXw

"Chaos sounds mysterious, like something anomalous, a disruption of the normal order of things. But in fact, chaos is everywhere.

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"You’d think that perturbing a chaotic system just makes the chaos worse, but not so.

"In the years after the first paper on chaos control, a couple of different methods were proposed for it.

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"If chaos is so common, then why does the world look so orderly? That’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in science at the moment. It seems that naturally occurring adaptive systems increase their complexity until they’re just about barely not chaotic. Naturally occurring adaptive systems are for example living creatures, plants and us, but also institutions and societies. Stuart Kauffman called it poetically the “Edge of Chaos” that we live on, but it’s more technically referred to as “Self-organized Criticality”. (my bold)

"Just why the world is that way, no one really knows. But loosely speaking it seems that if you want to get something done, then both too much order and too much chaos is bad. Or, to put it differently, some chaos in your life is good. You just have to know how to keep it under control."

Comment: the meat of the point is in my bold. Life is a maintained equilibrium by design.