Lemmee offer some more unsupported Speculation for such logical 
analysis as you offered Todd... 
 
You may find a fractle generator for download that offers what I 
see as an interesting experiment.  If you pick a fractle formula, 
and iterate it in the 2 dimensions it was created in on your CRT, 
you will notice that the subsequent iterations resemble the fern 
leaf in that they seem to be differences in scale of the same set 
of basic shapes.  But, continue the iterations, and at some point 
the pattern changes, without so far as I can tell, any warning. 
 
Continued iteration will have new series of related images for a 
while, then change again.  But, at some point, the whole thing is 
likely to 'break down' and the images loose all sense of pattern, 
appear totally chaotic, like TV snow.  And again, if that too is 
iterated long enough, it will suddenly evolve back into pattern 
sets again. 
 
What is going on here?  There does not seem to be any random set 
of phenomena that you can present that, if iterated long enough, 
will not break down into *order*.  Now obviously, I cannot prove 
that such a random phenomena does not exist which will not, but 
only that so far as I can tell, there *is* no demonstration of a 
truely random state which will not, at some point, *evolve*. 
 
The Aryan/proto-Greek cosmology seems to have the idea that the 
universe began with 'CHAOS' (gr.), and that that chaos *evolved* 
into God and the universe concurrently.  Whether Chaos itself is 
still extant remains a moot point, as Murphy's laws suggest. 
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