Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Week #7 Assignment

1. Ordered Chaos: Even in chaos, I think there are patterns that exist. Personally, sometimes my apartment can get very chaotic, but it's generally chaotic in the same way (dog stuff everywhere, books on all surfaces, etc). And even when we clean, it often falls back into chaos, seemingly naturally.

2. It's hard to predict how small perturbations affect us, but since all of us and everything in our universe seems to be interconnected, there undoubtedly are impacts to even small disturbances in the world. For example, even a tiny change in the earth's axis will impact the climate of our planet, and therefore the health of many ecosystems.

3. I personally can't connect consciousness with the idea of "mystical themes of wholeness". I don't can't equate consciousness with wholeness - the two concepts don't resonate for me together. I think there are objects that I view as "whole" in an aesthetic sense but that are not conscious.

4. I did a couple of the computer experiments listed for this week. Trippy!

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