Kaos Theory
It's amazing how the small things have such a profound affect on our psyche. Like the ubiquitous butterfly from chaos theory - a single phrase, a simple action has profound and seemingly disproportional repercussions. But then I guess it's not so strange after all, when you consider:
"Remember that this earth is but an atom in the universe, and ( Read more... )
"Remember that this earth is but an atom in the universe, and ( Read more... )
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I was going to launch into a discussion of turning points and amplification effects on systems and one of the problems with causality, but then I figured I'd give you the option of not having to listen to all that :-)
If you'd like me to blab for a bit, let me know. I won't be offended if you don't want me to blab either, I know I can be annoying (hence why I'm offering the option) :-)
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Bouncin about with excitement now...
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Hehe, brace yourself for geekery then, this is the subject matter I'm currently obsessed with ;-)
If you kinda squint at the complex web of relationships around us, so boggling and huge that our brains just give up and go blank (rather like trying to truly comprehend infinity!), squint so that the details blur and all you can see are the basic shapes, there are relatively few, simple, beautiful patterns of relationship that govern things.
There are two in particular, two extremely simple things which, when combined with each other and have time introduced to the mix, create so many of these amazingly complex behaviors around us. These two patterns are self-reinforcing and balancing.
Simplify: think of the population on Easter Island and remove extraneous factors so that all you're dealing with is people, food supply, birth rate, and death rate. The population grew larger and larger and then began to exhaust its food supply. When the food supply got too scarce to support the population, the population began to die, producing less ( ... )
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