Apollyon wrote:
Because my life is riddled with synchronicities, and chaos theory is the only rational explanation.
Though, when you think about it, everyone embodies the chaos theory. Are our actions responsible for a whole slew of unforeseen, indirect events, or are those events preordained? I'm going to go with chaos theory. Ever read A Sound of Thunder? Think about it. Who knows what repercussions changing my daily routines could have on the future.
And I'm toasting with a shot of Stolichnaya, followed by a glass of I hate Newton's physical laws because they oppress me.
Synchronicities? Then you
can perceive the threads in the lattice of coincidence? That is a rare gift; an even rarer gift is being able to connect the threads, to be able to glimpse the lattice itself. You can't see it if you look directly at it; it is only something that can be seen out of the corner of one's eye... But part of the riddle is that the lattice is (at least) four-dimensional. Look at it just right (which involves not looking directly at it), and you may be able to perceive some interesting things...
There is much in the universe that might defy rational explanation, no?
"
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet
Chaos theory is but a glimpse of something very much larger, a tip of the proverbial iceberg, so to speak.
Unknown repercussions; fate and free will; these are functions of being pinned down by the fourth dimension. When we look back, all is fixed, ordained as it unfolded; when we look forward... Can we see anything? Can we do more than guess? I wonder sometimes... But to toy with things man was not meant to know invites madness; Cassandra understood that...
I have not read "A Sound of Thunder"; I shall have to pick up a copy, and think about what you said.
Vodka, microbiology, chaos, and Asperger's; quite an intoxicating mixture, if I dare say so myself...
Good fortune,
- Icarus is more of a Scotch guy...
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