Platt Holden (pholden@worldnet.att.net)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 06:03:15 +0100
Hi Magnus:
Magnus wrote:
> Let me describe what I mean with chaos. It's quite simple really. Every
> static pattern we've ever known will disintegrate and become *nothing* as
> in "No thing". The physical way to describe it is that every atom will
> fall apart and become indistinguishable from eachother and the rest of
> the nothingness. Every Quality Event will be completely unpredictable
> and nothing will be the same from "moment" to "moment", not that any
> "moments" as such would exist anyway.
>
> That's what freedom from all static patterns means, that's what chaos
> is *to me*. Please share what it is to you.
Well, I guess it's my turn to be missing something. If all concepts are
static patterns, and if "nothing" is a concept, then "nothing" is a static
pattern. If the "nothing" static pattern disintegrates into a "no thing"
static pattern, what's the difference? The logic escapes me. Anyway,
aren't the so-called particles that make up electrons and such "no things,"
just necessary figments of mathematical equations?
Chaos means to me, "I have no idea,." a situation I sometimes value for it
spurs me to learn more, i.e. lay some static patterns onto the mysteries of
life. Quantum physics, for example, was pretty much chaos for me until Doug
and others took the time to patiently explain its fundamental patterns.
When scientists talk about chaos, it seems to me they're talking about
phenomena they can't explain, a patternless pattern. And isn't that what
Pirsig is talking about, too? Only Pirsig says scientists are looking in
all the wrong places for an explanation, or rather, they really don't have
to look because, to paraphrase Pogo,. "They are it" -- Quality.
Back to you my friend,
Platt
Catch 34: To continue to exist, we must divide indivisible existence.
(Thanks Doug!)
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