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Chapter 5, Buddha Science, Chaos and Complexity
(edited July 29)
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I continue my virtual dialogue with Steve Daut’s written words in “Buddha Science,” chapter 5. As mentioned in the previous introduction I will skim over this chapter because it stands by itself. Background matters and I encourage anyone who finds this interesting to invest in your own copy of Steve Daut’s book so you can read the rest of the Buddha Science story for yourself.
In this series I’m all about trying to highlight where my Earth Centrist, bottom-up-evolutionary, outlook differs from this summary of some religious/philosophical current thinking. I’m in agreement with the fundamentals he presents and don’t “take issue” with Daut’s book per se.
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Chapter 5a, Chaos and complexity, At the movies
¶a4 “… Scientists have found that chaos is virtually everywhere, connecting things in astonishing and unpredictable ways.”
¶a5 ““But chaos is only the beginning. …
These pages were interesting to read but since I don’t have anything worth adding to this discussion regarding chaos, I won’t try.
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Chapter 5b, Chaos and complexity, Movies, schmovies
"In fact, as the study of complexity has gained traction, chaos has come to be defined as a very special type of behavior that contributes to the complexity of systems. The study of complexity seeks to understand the functioning of whole systems that have many component parts. It seeks to discover and describe how these parts interact, and how the behavior of he system relates to its parts. These efforts lead to a third subject, emergence."
