>In a message dated 98-10-29 12:10:44 EST, you write: > ><< The movement between chaos and order. The movement between change and >continutity?? >> > >Your question causes me to think about what is doing the moving. It also >leads me to speculate that it is only our version of consciousness that makes >the distinctions between order and chaos, continuity and change. I doubt that >that duality or distinction exists outside the confines of our mind and our >conversations. > >I also think that all of this has something to do with systems and subsystems. >The subsystems we understand seem orderly and we can predictably navigate >there. But the next level of organization up from what we understand seems >chaotic because the degree of complexity is not contained within our mental >model of what is going on. When big forces of the next level up disrupt the >subsystems that we understand (in ways that we don't understand) we start >thinking about chaos. >
Yes yes yes --- its time to be thinking casos not chaos >Reminds me of a line from a poem I once wrote. > >"The omnivorance of Chaos licks the carapace of the dream >And the watchful eyes of Consciousness mistrust the nuance they preceive" > >Joe > >