continuity and change

[Denis Hitchens]

>In a message dated 98-10-29 12:10:44 EST, you write:
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><< The movement between chaos and order. The movement between change and
>continutity?? >>
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>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.
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>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.
>

Yes yes yes  ---  its time to be thinking casos not chaos



>Reminds me of a line from a poem I once wrote.
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>"The omnivorance of Chaos licks the carapace of the dream
>And the watchful eyes of Consciousness mistrust the nuance they preceive"
>
>Joe
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