Message from @Airman Zeno

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2020-03-28 04:08:06 UTC  

what is an example of something disordered then?

2020-03-28 04:08:26 UTC  

if a clock is ordered becaus each piece was placed intentionally, would disorder be an arrangement with no intention behind it?

2020-03-28 04:08:37 UTC  

no

2020-03-28 04:08:41 UTC  

well

2020-03-28 04:08:51 UTC  

it depends i guess

2020-03-28 04:09:04 UTC  

directed vs undirected chaos

2020-03-28 04:09:07 UTC  

Maybe a riot, but then the riotors are order amougnst themselves.

2020-03-28 04:09:18 UTC  

That would be directed chaos

2020-03-28 04:09:32 UTC  

Chaos against "the system"

2020-03-28 04:09:33 UTC  

I think we typically call things ordered or disordered based on how people tend to organize things.

2020-03-28 04:09:35 UTC  

pure chaos cannot exist because even chaotic things have laws like gravity etc acting upon them

2020-03-28 04:09:52 UTC  

so the ocean, while chaotic, is also somewhat ordered

2020-03-28 04:10:14 UTC  

I don't know that you could really call anything disordered besides a few really niche examples

2020-03-28 04:10:15 UTC  

order is law and predictability

2020-03-28 04:10:34 UTC  

predictability is a whole other concept though I worry about invoking that here.

2020-03-28 04:10:36 UTC  

taken from a wide enough lens, anything can have order to it

2020-03-28 04:10:49 UTC  

fair enough

2020-03-28 04:10:57 UTC  

well not anything

2020-03-28 04:11:08 UTC  

I think non-computable numbers could be considered disordered

2020-03-28 04:11:13 UTC  

as there is no way to produce them

2020-03-28 04:11:27 UTC  

i consider those to be more like

2020-03-28 04:11:27 UTC  

Well, frozen ice typically considered an ordered system. Low entropy. But a puddle from the same ice cube is in chaos. Littld order and high entropy. Perhaps the same thinking could be applied?

2020-03-28 04:11:45 UTC  

indivisible units of information

2020-03-28 04:12:00 UTC  

the indivisible unit is a really hard concept for me to explain

2020-03-28 04:12:09 UTC  

like

2020-03-28 04:12:11 UTC  

@ChaosNatural this is how I think of it, there isn't really an absolute order, or chaos. We it's just a judgement of how far a system is from how people would typically organize things

2020-03-28 04:12:13 UTC  

its a baseline

2020-03-28 04:12:44 UTC  

idk its a concept i cant really put into words very well

2020-03-28 04:13:02 UTC  

so let's step back a bit

2020-03-28 04:13:31 UTC  

we began by saying society is ideally ordered, or rather, the very definition of order. But I think we've kind of deconstructed the idea of order altogether at this point.

2020-03-28 04:13:33 UTC  

Information, at least as it applies to the sciences, can't be destroyed. Much like energy.

2020-03-28 04:13:37 UTC  

the apple from the garden of eden REPRESENTS that concept well

2020-03-28 04:13:42 UTC  

That is to say, there are a number of different ways we can order society.

2020-03-28 04:14:10 UTC  

And I would assert that the 5 precepts don't provide us with an argument for how we *should* organize society

2020-03-28 04:14:44 UTC  

its a fundamental unit of information. much of the rest of science can be broken down, but the base of it is the behavior of the atom

2020-03-28 04:14:46 UTC  

It's just a way that happened to work. Out of many other ways?

2020-03-28 04:14:57 UTC  

sub atomic, behavior isnt understandable

2020-03-28 04:15:14 UTC  

sub atomic behavior is beyond the scope of this conersation.

2020-03-28 04:15:18 UTC  

Oh, like the uncertainty principle?

2020-03-28 04:15:24 UTC  

oh god no

2020-03-28 04:15:30 UTC  

stop typing