continuity and change

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In a message dated 98-10-29 12:10:44 EST, you write:

<< The movement between chaos and order. The movement between change and
continutity?? >>

Your question causes me to think about what is doing the moving.  It also
leads me to speculate that it is only our version of consciousness that makes
the distinctions between order and chaos, continuity and change. I doubt that
that duality or distinction exists outside the confines of our mind and our
conversations.

I also think that all of this has something to do with systems and subsystems.
The subsystems we understand seem orderly and we can predictably navigate
there.  But the next level of organization up from what we understand seems
chaotic because the degree of complexity is not contained within our mental
model of what is going on.  When big forces of the next level up disrupt the
subsystems that we understand (in ways that we don't understand) we start
thinking about chaos.

Reminds me of a line from a poem I once wrote.

"The omnivorance of Chaos licks the carapace of the dream
And the watchful eyes of Consciousness mistrust the nuance they preceive"

Joe