Creative Chaos
How many times have you found your mind buffering even when doing the right thing out of the to-do list? In the hindsight, the plan is close to perfection, the devil couldn’t deny it. But you couldn’t deny the buffer either. Enter, Chaos!
The clutter is the devil’s own and it plays two roles. It’s the obstruction to your smooth life, but also the anchor to the otherwise wandering machine, the brain. In other words, it’s the required ‘system’ to the utter randomness we are naturally subjected to. I am sure you’ve come across fractals, pine cones, and pineapples, all of which follow the Fibonacci sequence. The center of the sunflower (*Spider-Man has arrived*) also follows the Golden ratio (the approximate ratio between two consecutive terms in the Fibonacci series).
In all the multiverses (yes they exist xD), the Big Bangs have happened in that one possible way out of the million other possibilities because of the dear need of a randomized discipline. And so will the Big Crunch be. I am not an advocate of the existential requirement of imparting the answers to the carefree why’s of life. (*Though I wish I was a casual Nihilist, I am not*). But Mathematics (read statistical inferences) has told us that in a larger, longer course of events, things tend to get ‘normal’ too (I am sure this does ring some bells xD).
Oh Also,
Systematic Chaos VS Creativity
The behavior of complex systems can follow laws and yet their future states remain in principle unpredictable.
This is where the crux of creativity lies, in the very nature of it having the capacity (if not tendency) to be brand new every single time! There’s a reason even a tranied model often creates new content even though its backbones are a set number of fixed algorithms. Whether that art is admissable or not, is truly the artist’s call.
Hawkings hedged the loss of energy in the Universe caused by the Black Hole hoopla using Hawking Radiation. That hot fix turned out to be just fine to put a check to the otherwise theoretically plaussible end.
Applications of Chaos Theory
It is proven that complex chaotic systems are vulnerable to drastic changes from minor variations. For example, rounding off variables like wind speed and temperature to 3 decimal points instead of 6 resulted in a totally different set of weather predictions (This is a famous experimented conducted by Edward Lorenz in 1961).
Such changes can result in a disruption. A positive loop would be when the increase in one variable increases another variable, which in turn increases the first variable, to an inflection where the bubble bursts…
The tulips are still fragrant for the Dutch :)
Consider markets and finance. Intangibles like fear, effect of calamities and pandemics on the overall market sentiment, doubt, desire, hope, etc. are all complex and non linear entities which could bring a sudden drop in a single stock. Though the application of the chaos theory is controversial today in many domains, it makes a great food for thought.
Dynamic instabilities aren’t the anomalies in the middle of the stability dogma. In fact, these subtle complexities help in the pattern formation and in a way, impart creativity in many worlds, even in that of mathematical sciences. Cheers!
