Chaos - The Law

General Philosophy
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People often view the world as an order where good people are rewarded and bad people are punished. But simply put, looking deeper, we can only conclude that it’s all chaos.

I’m not saying this denies that good people don’t deserve rewards, or that bad people can do whatever they want. But if we analyze it, we realize that every action has a price to pay, a corresponding give and take. However, it’s not just about who rewards and who punishes; there are both rewards and punishments.

Then we realize it’s not so one-sided. Rewards and punishments aren’t determined by what the world is like, but by how you perceive it. And at the micro level, humans, in other words, are the order of the world, playing the role of the most perfect chaos.

Looking at reality, everything remains stagnant, and this world, by its very nature, forces everything to begin moving, and it is from this movement that chaos emerges. Perhaps from a creative act, we gain a profound and great new idea, but upon reflection, we must spend time thinking it through, and sometimes that very act of creation makes us more arrogant, more insane, and more convinced of our superior position in order.

But that’s not a reason to consider everything in this world meaningless; it’s simply a butterfly effect of life. On the other hand, stagnation is the true symbol of death. Because when we believe we are supreme, the greatest, haven’t we already stopped? When the result is an entity bound to the highest, it is dead.

And we ask again, what is death? If continuous movement is life, why can the result be death simply because it is a cessation, even though its premise is movement? In fact, it is because it is the punishment we receive from chaos, a punishment not stemming from the outcome itself, but from the action we took. The outcome and the punishment are merely chain reactions created by ourselves.

And then, the death of the result means we have stopped the act of creation, but that self-confidence in our supreme position is also counted as an action, and our punishment increases, but the result cannot increase.So the conclusion of the collapse is that we cannot compensate for our losses. Or, the rewards cannot make up for the penalties.

From that, continuous movement is the key to resolving death. We can see that great figures like Socrates, Plato, etc., never truly experienced death; instead, they continuously created, but this creation lay in the way they produced results with such powerful rewards—continuous movement that punishment could not make them disappear. However, this powerful mechanism doesn’t arise naturally; it depends on those who believe in it, consider it a faith, live for it, and study it, allowing it to help its owner create even more fruitful rewards.

Conversely, those who worship it also act in pursuit of their own rewards and punishments; they have an absolute system to rely on and withstand chaos, but when harsh reality overturns that absolute system, they pay a much higher price as they themselves stop and cannot continue to move forward, only able to depend.

In general, it’s not necessarily about who benefits more, but rather about exchanges where the determining factor of profit or loss is whether or not it can continue to function.

And perhaps it is the two opposing forces of movement and stillness that are the two parent systems determining the different butterfly effects. But as I said at the beginning, humans are the most perfect embodiment of chaos. This means we can control ourselves and everyone else as chaos.

But I won’t go any further, because the more we try to control chaos, the greater the consequences we face. While it’s not impossible, make wise decisions on your path.

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I think the idea is the create isolated pockets of order for as long as possible. But your idea of chaos would only apply to human systems; the cosmos has been argued to be orderly.

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You seem to be saying this

We have an ethical duty to exercise self control because we can.

Everybody else’s behaviour is chaotic and as we cannot distinguish good intentions from bad ones we shouldn’t exercise judgement

There is a higher power that can judge people and give them lasting life

I disagree. I think that the behaviour of criminals is often transparent. Motivated by greed, power, the excitement of being outside the law and a belief they won’t be caught

Its expected of us that we take the trouble to pay our tax to support the courts, that we do Jury service, and that we seek reasonable and proportionate punishment when we are victim of crime or are witness to it.

This is key to how we move from a society in which selfishness and selflessness hang in the balance, while crime pays, and a society that serves all its citizens.

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Actually, I never said we shouldn’t do it. What I was saying was about understanding the consequences of our actions from a chaotic system perspective. Because when applying this principle, people will understand better and be more determined on their path. It’s not about always wanting everything without paying the price, wanting freedom but not wanting responsibility, etc.

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From a theological-scientific POV, the question was the existence of order in a universe whose entropy never decreases. S = k_B \ln \Omega where \Omega defines the microstates a particular macrostate corresponds to. \Delta S \geq 0. This applies to a closed system, meaning no energy influx/efflux. If there’s energy, it can be used to maintain order but, as you said, there’s a cost - dissipation of heat; after thermal equilibration (every point is the same temperature) no more work can be done.

A physicist has a neat theory. Coffee, add cream gently. The cream stays on top. This is low entropy and simple. Wait for an hour or 2 and the cream thoroughly mixes with the coffee. This is high entropy and simple. Between these 2 simple but entropically opposite states is the domain where complexity arises.

Mathematical chaos is sensitivity to small initial differences, manifested as divergence of endpoints. Usually involves exponentiation of some kind. It was first discovered in practical terms when Edward Lorentz was simulating the weather. I believe he rounded off some numbers the second time around.

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Chaos and order are opposing forces that must be in flux, and maintain some degree of balance, in order to facilitate human prosperity.

Chaos is yin, or feminine, and when not structured by order turns merely destructive and without direction.

Order is yang, or masculine, and when not properly counterbalanced by chaos, turns stagnant.

Notice the yin-in-yang and yang-in-yin principle at play. Destruction being a yang-imbalance and stagnation being a yin-imbalance.

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Firstly, as a bit of housekeeping: the OP includes terms like “the butterfly effect” that allude to the mathematical / physics concept of chaos. There are many popular misconceptions about this concept and it can be quite counter-intuitive; for example, classical chaos is fundamentally deterministic.

Secondly, the OP alludes to concept of fairness. I would say the situation is that the universe itself is inherently unfair, with natural selection being a brutal demonstration of how nature has zero f’s given for the individual. But humans, just as we can make an artificial world of roads and buildings, can artificially create pockets of relative fairness. It’s still a very unfair world, but it’s already much better than a complete free for all.

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Except that you contradict what you say by giving your own perspective of reality in the OP. When I say you contradict what you say, I mean your explanatory method of chaos is itself an order. It is an order because you are able to grasp a unifying theme, and by grasping a unifying theme, you proclaim an order in your thinking.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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In the elementary stages of chaos theory infinite iterations are employed, one pixel step at a time. One can generalize this approach by using infinite compositions of complex functions. To see imagery arising from examples, go to the following and skip the math: (PDF) A Primer on the Elementary Theory of Infinite Compositions of Complex Functions + Images

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In fact, if we reflect more deeply, order is merely a single thread among the countless fragments of order that exist within chaos. What happens, then, when two orders meet? Often, the result is chaos. Humans confine themselves within the framework of what they call “order,” yet essentially, order is nothing more than the linear progression of a closed system. And we exist within an open system.

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In truth, fairness is simply a subjective human perception. We consider something unfair because we dislike it. But in reality, no matter what, from a broader perspective, all injustices can easily be reversed. However, don’t assume that nothing is worth defending, because defense is a continuous process that creates immense value.

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A perception is a discovery of what things are like, and fairness protects the long-term benefits of cooperation within families and groups. If we only had our own subjective perceptions, then we’d be dead.

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Actually, not entirely. While fairness does require objectivity, even the most genuine form of fairness – the law – sometimes fails to maintain its objectivity. Looking deeper, does true fairness exist, or is it simply something agreed upon and accepted by tens of thousands of people?