I believe there is reason in chaos because chaos is the reason.



..The anthropic principle or as it was once written: "The Goldilocks Dilemma"..

The idea that we live in a world situated perfectly in a universe that is not too hot or too cold; too inhospitable, but sustainable with the right foundations for life. The idea that in order for those chances of happening to even be plausible the Universe had to be created for us. Maybe hints at intelligent design.

Those who oppose the anthropic principle call upon it as "Puddle thinking" as Douglas Adams called it:


But I digress. I don't wander off into the metaphysical complications of asking such a ridiculous question of "what is the meaning of life" or "why are we here."


I want to conjure up a different thought. One that explains the role of chaos in the universe. Chaos can mean a lot of things. For some it for-tails disaster. When we say an event is chaotic, it implies disestablishment. However chaos could just mean the absence order. Something which isn't. The same way void is the absence of mass and dark is the absence of light. For what we know light is; dark isn't.

The absence of order does not necessarily mean that which is ominous or bad. After all, with total order we have stasis, absolute stasis with no regard to change, no concept of free-will..

Perhaps the idea of chaos is not so far distant from our everyday lives..

I am not a proponent of one thing or another. But why do we not place enough significance on chaos?

As the puddle thinking demonstrates how one could perceive a world created intentionally and specifically for a particular existence. Is it too far off to imagine chaos - created and incorporated for that purpose as well? For the purpose of existence?

The idea of disorder being part of the order which runs our lives? The idea that the presence of chaos that we try ostracize is the cause and the function for our very existence?

Would it be far-fetched to think of a god or being which creates this sort of chaos. A god who creates disorder for the sake of order?




I used to believe if there can be such a thing as chaos and furthermore if it is anything good. I used to look at nature and really how everything is ordered, structured, as if planned to even most slightest detail.

I believed in perfection within nature, because I don't think whatever happens is ever random. All things bounded by time and space. And the thought of a separate conjoining force of time-space continuum - if there was true chaos in this world I'd be inclined to believe neither should exist.

I used to think that nothing happens in nature without reason, or a cause. Nothing begets nothing.

But now I wonder if perfection can really exist within nature (for any length of time), a life form can be perfectly suited to its environment. Until that environment changes - at which point the definition of "perfection" changes.

I was careful in separating fate from chaos as if they were two distinct opposing forces. Fate is the absolute presence of order. Chaos is the absolute presence of disorder.

But that is not true. Things are not "fated" to happen. The same way things do not "just" happen as by chaos.

The idea of a plan being worked for the universe and the idea of holes in the plan actually being part of the plan itself.

The idea that alludes somewhat to intelligent design. The idea that nothing in nature , not even nature itself , is absolute or perfect. The idea that a being or beings in charge of the universe are the one(s) which can be considered absolute or perfect - whatever that may mean.

I believe that for every vice there is a versa. There is no right or wrong: just is and isn't.


We cannot know day without night.
What night is day isn't.

Finite exists because of the infinite.
Maybe the very fact of our existence proves there is a god.

However that does not mean these very things intertwine or, conversely, separate.


Infinite does not have to exist within the finite.
Light does not exist within the dark.


However they are not sterilized.


Finite can certainly exist within the finite.
Dark can certainly exist within the Light.
Vice can certainly exist in a good thing.

Order can exist in disorder but it does not have to.
Disorder can exist in order but it does not have to.

There could be a reason to our existence
but not necessarily so.