++> CHAOS ???: ..........a geometry of natural understanding ???
                ..........another language of an artsy god ???
                ..........an unknowable instinct of nature ???
                ..........a right brain phantasy ???
 
        Several of your postings have mentioned "chaos", which I
  had never thought seriously about. Since trying to become
  familiar with fractals, the term "chaos" keeps coming up.
  I can work with it in generalities,  as a "primordial cosmic
  expanse" or just a note of "confusion",  but the idea of "chaos"
  being definable into formulae, bends my thinking some ....at least
  and unless in the presence of some other questions/views. That
  any piece (or even ALL) of reality can be so confined into
  predictable windows and reduced to portable algorithms, seems to
  suggest "SOMETHING". Assuming such developing theory reaches a
  valid platform of workable acceptance, what would that "SOMETHING"
  mean? If just another clever twit of nature (data/matter compression)
  ...Why bother with so much space and knowability, unless nature (or
  God) has limits?
        Just thought I'd get your take on a growing area of inquiry
  (especially since I'm so fuzzy on how to frame such "pattern poetry"
  into  an initial grasp). Since the fractal/chaos implications
  are still working their way into serious science, the whys? and
  what ifs tease the imagination. What happens to philosophy if all
  reality can be projected or derived from math formulae? .....or do
  we then have a "philosophy of chaos" that dwells to explore number
  patterns?
                                              ??
  .....the emerging science of chaology ...  \oo/ ... Dave
  .....NO! just the gods having a bit of    //
  .....fun at our expense ??? !!!          //
                                         ~  ~
  "     I got damned mad at being disturbed by Tiamant and her
    chaos of noisy kids ...and I gave them some order. I called
    it 'FRACTAL GEOMETRY', and except for an occasional tease,
    I kept it PRETTY MUCH private for some next many millennia
    down the line. "
                                             ............Innana
 
                          @@ --- Dave
 
  NOTE:  Though I've reached the point where I can plot both ends of
      complex numbers (normal x's & imaginary y') on my monitor, I'm
      still having considerable pain understanding the progression
      transformations themselves. I'm having to work with math and
      notations I never learned. I wonder that anyone not soaked
      in math (me) can ever fully appreciate the next and potential
      levels of complexity or the search formulas for reverse compression
      algorithms. Those who would write the "holodeck" programs are going
      to be some pretty talented dudes....with some considerable debug
      years ........!!!
 
 
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