Unexpected Order Out of Chaos
Those who have not read Alan Watts are going to find this utterly perplexing; those who have will be nodding their heads and smiling like a lizard pie at the stark symmetry recently discovered where ordinary chaos spontaneously melts into beautiful order proving once and for all that indeed Eng-a-land do swings just like a pendulum do:
“… the pendulums, when pushed by forces according to a regular rhythm, behaved chaotically and swung out of sync. Yet when the researchers introduced disorder—applying forces at random intervals to each oscillator—they began to swing in synch. The ‘forces’ were applied along the rods of the ‘pendulums’ to make them swing … When you introduce disorder… the chaos that was present before disappears and there is order”
[ Order from chaos ]
Being biophysicists, they also muse on whether perhaps their result could have relevence in neuro-cognitive research, and whether it is not the neuron physiology per-se so much as just its coupled oscillation that effects the magic. For example, since we already see brain cells reacting like chain-link fence groups, could this help explain how these cells can sometimes sync their response to a stimulus?
Hmmm … coupled oscillations evoking unified response from a chaotic vibration … don’t that sound, well, a little like applied space music?
source: Unexpected Order Out of Chaos
