I am watching a neat little video that touches on chaos theory. Seems pretty relevant to on-goings today. They claim to have found that chaos isn't "natural" but happens when something is acted upon too frequently, but that even the chaos that emerges fit's neatly within a structure basically defining the action being taken too frequently that induces chaos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSugrPBR9JA 21:02 hit me with some moloch eyes so I wanted to see what they were on about. I was not disappointed. Mad information. One of the graphs even reminds me of the TikTok logo sort of! 32:43
Oh, I like what you are saying!
I don't want to spoil anything but it starts bumping when they talk about weather monitoring and then later the water drop test. Essentially there are rules that take over when the rules we understand do not seem to apply, meaning that even chaos is ordered, we just generally don't have enough data points to make sense of it. Which kind of goes back to what you were saying. I also liked how it talked about fluid dynamics, heat an area up and they move to a cooler area....., I can think of a few situations that this specifically applies to, continue the heat and eventually everything gets excited and it is difficult to pinpoint where something is going to end up, but it will end up somewhere within the "rules". I think about the gun debate and what they have done to move on to the end of that discussion.
And, there is no such thing as "randomness." Everything obeys the natural laws. Certain things seem random to us only because the mathematics is too complicated to calculate due to the vast number of variables that would affect the equation.
Any programmer knows that you can't truly generate a random number; you can only simulate one. It is usually done by grabbing a timestamp from the computer and using the last digit or two of it as one of the variables in a mathematical formula. Since the timestamp goes many digits past the decimal point, it isn't possible for a human to time their keystrokes such that they could intentionally grab any particular set of numbers -- our reflexes just aren't fast enough. Thus, any set of numbers generated would appear random when, in fact, they are not.