Poetry
The essence of chaos is self-organizing. It’s what a river current does when it eddies around a boulder and then reforms; it’s what a flock of birds does when it takes off from a tree and then glides into formation; it’s what a weather system does when it collides into a different system, merges, and then keeps moving; the same with sand dunes,
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This is because of the butterfly effect, which refers to how a very small and seemingly insignificant action, like the flapping of a butterfly’s wing, could get violently amplified through chaotic cycles such that it causes a tornado on the other side of the world. What this effect means is that if you try to model a physical system that has
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Why chaos is good, actually
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"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor,
... See moreIn ancient Greek, the word "chaos" (Χάος) didn’t have today’s connotations of disorder and confusion. Depending on who you asked, Chaos was:
It was only around 700 years later, when the Roman poet Ovid described Chaos as "a... See more
- A void (or “chasm”)
- Some sort of dwelling place
- The female force of creation
- The son of Chronos (the embodiment of linear time)
It was only around 700 years later, when the Roman poet Ovid described Chaos as "a... See more
Joel Stein • Why chaos is good, actually
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