[sodpoodle]

(A FReeper on another thread piqued my interest)

http://www.around.com/chaos.html

Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working in science. It makes strong claims about the universal behavior of complexity. The first chaos theorists, the scientists who set the discipline in motion, shared certain sensibilities. They had an eye for pattern, especially pattern that appeared on different scales at the same time. They had a taste for randomness and complexity, for jagged edges and sudden leaps. Believers in chaos—and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists—speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.

[editor-surveyor]

"They believe that they are looking for the whole."

I found it, its in their heads.

[bruinbirdman]

"They believe that they are looking for the whole."

Like many people who claim to be athiests yet spend their lives looking for God.

yitbos