Does chaos exist?

Question

Does chaos exist?

Answer 1

No it doesnt. Chaos is the abscence of order. Just like darkness is the abscence of light. There is no darkness or chaos, just an abscence of its opposite.

Answer 2

Of course it does. And all human societies work towards minimising it and keeping it under control. Hence the universal institutions of marriage, religion, politics, initiation, and death rituals...

Answer 3

Chaos is the opposite of cosmos. Since nature must follow its own laws--it does not have any choice--it cannot be said that following those laws alows for any chaos.

Chaos would have to be the absence of any natural laws, where planets went colliding into each other instead of being caught in the gravity of the sun they orbit, etc.

Even the events in the first micro-nano-seconds of the big bang had to follow the laws of nature; so even those events were not chaotic, but could be predicted if we knew all the laws of nature.

Answer 4

While this seems like a simple question, it is quite complicated. The best answer that I could say is, "we can never know."

Chaos is usually associated with disorder and randomness, which themselves can only be understood through contrasting them with order and sequentiality. If this was the only piece of the puzzle, we could clearly state that chaos exists; it would exist as a pattern that lacks order.

However, order as an idea is always questionable. The best way to understand this is to look at numbers. If we have 1,2,3,4,...., then we can say we have order and sequentiality. In short, we lack chaos.

Yet, 2, 3, 7, 1, 5....could also have order if the pattern repeats. So, what looks chaotic may indeed have order. To be more clear, think of a "random number" (for example, the decimals of pi). Since we never see the pattern repeat, we call it random (or we say it expresses chaos); however, we could find that the next digit simply restarts the entire pattern before it (i.e., maybe pi begins to repeat after the 28 billionth position). Until we find that repetition, pi will SEEM chaotic (that is, lacking order), yet AFTER we find the repetition, it will SEEM to have order. Since human knowledge is always limited, we can never KNOW with certainty that THAT which seems chaotic does not simply have an ORDER that we have yet to unlock and know.

Answer 5

Does chaos exist?

Yes it does and as long as Greed exist it will always be this way!  Cheers