Final Thoughts on Order and Chaos

Order and Chaos are two sides to the same coin. Although each is the opposite of the other, they are bound together and can never be separated into black and white alone. Tidy is to clutter as clutter is to clutter. Order and Chaos are mixed forces of positives and negatives forever circling each other without end. To continue with tidy vs. clutter, it is more a point of view shared by two (or more) different parties. If a person were to live in a cluttered house, to another it may appear as disorganized and Chaotic. To the person living in said house, the clutter could be an Order of itself and should the house be tidied the Order would be lost. Much like when a mother picks up a child's toys and the child cannot find them afterward.
Order or Chaos can be the outcome of the other. In some of our readings like 1984 there was a strict sense of Order which caused Chaos. In Order to make the party a complete power in their own right, the past had to be changed again and again keeping the party from fault. Smith says in confusion, "I understand HOW: I do not understand Why". Smith is driven to Chaos to escape the Order of the party that he sees as unjust.
A Burial at Thebes and Night are similar because a overly Orderly act causes a Chaotic outcome. In A Burial at Thebes it is King Creon's Order that causes those around him to change into Chaos because they view his Order and Chaotic; Chaotic in the sense that he is one man giving Orders without regard to the wishes of the people. In Elie Wiesel's Night the Nazi party have Ordered the death camps of the Jews and other people believed unfit for Nazi Germany. The Order causes Chaos among the Prisoners who do not know if they will live until sunset from day to day.
The Chaos Theory as spoken about by Prof. Jacobson in his lecture is a case where Chaos can help form Order. By using the Chaos Theory, people have been able to complete complex mathematical problems that Order was to strict to solve. Dynamical systems which are a form of Chaos can create graphed lines which in math a line has Order.
Order and Chaos cross paths more often than most believe.
Things like "classify", "organize", and "discipline" were all cases of what we believed were Order in the beginning of the term. To classify animals into biological kingdoms is Order but it is also Chaos because not all animals are a simple one or the other. Tomatoes for the longest time were called a vegetable but are now classified as a fruit. As given above, to organize something may cause chaos because organization is more in the eye of the one that placed it there much like my room. Discipline in the military is very Orderly, but can cause thus under the Order to strike out in Chaos much like a lot of the stories members of the military will tell about how they and some buddies once placed a officer's bed in the showers.
As opposite things like "free-for-all" and "spontaneous" were thought to be Chaos at the beginning of the term, so too has our outlook on them changed. Nature can be one of the most Chaotic elements ever to exist. Storms the form possibly from the Butterfly Effect, trees growing on random stone pillars while fields remain bare, nature is the mother of free-for-all. Nature, however filled with Chaos, does form a natural Order. This natural Order is a constant that does not change. Spontaneous is a true flower of Chaos. To be spontaneous is to have as little to do with Order as possible. The natural Order keeps any spontaneous action within a realm however which limits the Chaotic forces behind it.
As this term comes to a close, Order and Chaos to me has proven that nothing is just as it is. Nothing is Order and nothing is Chaos, it just has different amounts of one or the other to different people. Finding how much is a personal test.

(To a term of interest)

Choas Theory by Prof. Jacobson

("Dynamical Systems". Here. 6 April 2010.)

Chaos, the final frontier?
Prof. Jacobson's lecture on Dynamical systems was a blast from the past that reminded me of one of my teachers back in 8th or 9th grade. Although I was to young to fully understand what my teacher had to say, many of the ideas about Dynamical systems and the Chaos Theory that prof. Jacobson talked about rang bells. In a mathematical sense the way nonlinear dynamics form can cause a irregular set of points and numbers made by change over time. Prof. Jacobson used the ever common y=x^2-2 and with each answer replugged the number back into the equation. After only a few repeats, the answers became more wild and less likely to be predicted inside the parameters. Like-wise, a small almost unnoticeable change in the number at the beginning would cause great changes within a short amount of time.
What took my to my interest the most however was the way which he tried to relate the Chaos Theory to cases in life where it could be helpful. Two of which were the reason for why artificial hearts fail and the study of neurology. It will be interesting to see how the Chaos Theory is applied to other fields in years to come. Perhaps it will find an area of space discovery which had been troublesome or maybe help with the understanding of the planet beneath our feet. One place it has entered not long ago is the study of quantum mechanics with the orbiting of electrons. It makes more sense when the electrons are counted not but where we once thought they were, but by the chaos that can be graphed without order as was done in prof. Jacobson's side show.