“Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
· This is the expression I use to describe the state of my “Cozy
Cottage”. It’s perfectly stable in this state. I know where 75-80% of my
belongings are located. When I decide to tidy up and create less chaos, I can’t
find my formerly placed articles.
· Fractals as patterns of complex systems
Fractals are mesmerizing. I imagine
they could be hypnotic and used as a tool for therapeutic use.
“A
fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns
that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a
simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion,
fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically,
they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely
familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers,
coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals –
such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a
simple equation over and over.”
· Consciousness out of chaos?
“We are constantly taking in new and
uncharted experience at every waking moment. This is chaos. It is the interplay
of chaos and order in the brain’s actual functioning that creates the stream of
consciousness as mediated by the hippocampus.” I think of the brain and the
mind as being different and this bridges a gap in my thinking about the two.
·
Conduct one
of these "cool experiments" and write up your
conclusions in your blog
I wanted to
do the “Cat” experiment, but I don’t have carpet in my cottage, so I chose the
utensil experiment. The only utensil that produced anything that I hadn’t
noticed before, was the spoon. The concave front of the spoon produced an
upside down image of my head and the opposite for the convex back of the spoon.
I didn’t get the knife to produce anything but a mirror image of the objects it
reflected.
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