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chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man

• psychoslave 4y ago
  The man was just a byproduct of nature, as well as its dreams. Ergo chaos is mother of order.
  • 867-5309 4y ago
    *the dream of order
  • yunruse 4y ago
    Life can benefit from and seek low-entropy solutions - they are easier to deal with for many situations, be they cognitive, evolutionary, or otherwise. But in the process of making them we naturally put the second law of thermodynamics to use, i.e. increasing entropy in the universe around us. It is vaguely reminiscent of a heat engine - we do our best to expel entropy, but in doing so create slightly more. Therefore (to put it poetically) it could be argued that chaos creates order to beget more chaos, just like a refrigerator does work to inevitably increases the net heat around it. This is reminiscent of the saying "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - it is strategically better to embrace a little chaos in the details that do not overly matter, to focus on consistency where it actually benefits.