Understanding Chaos Theory in Literature

A strange loop, Hofstadter claims, comes about when a sufficiently powerful cognitive system is able to twist its perception back on itself so that it can observe itself in the way that it observes things in its environment. The result of this strange loop is that the cognitive system perceives what Hofstadter terms “downward causality”, and this in turn reinforces the concept of I-ness, self-awareness, or consciousness.

Order and chaos are two events that inhabit the world that surrounds us. Natural events, such as gravity, create order where our world has laws and principles. One the other hand, war, fighting, and disasters make up the chaotic aspect of our world. How both are found in this world we live in, the same two ideas of order and chaos, are found in Eamon Grennan’s “One Morning.”

Traumatic stress disorders are on the rise in our world of chaos. Most people will find themselves being the victim of a traumatic incident at some point in their lives. For some, trauma is lived out daily. If they do not experience a trauma, then the likelihood is great that they are connected in some way to a victim of trauma. Acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder have become a topic of great interest to researchers. This text will define acute stress disorder also called ASD, and how it might be an early indicator of post-traumatic stress disorder. The text will also explain the various symptoms of acute stress disorder, how it was recognized and the diagnostic guideline. This text aims to address how the lives of individual who are impacted by trauma can be affected by ASD, and also cover the different treatment approached used by professionals and spiritual leaders. The scope and content in this paper aim to address how acute stress disorder affects an individual’s life and present the vital components of successful coping skills for individuals who experience trauma. The text will also bring attention to the various approaches of treatment by professionals and spiritual leaders.

There are quite a few examples of this conflict between chaos and order one example comes from events in the gunslinger. Roland seems to represent the west in many ways and has many qualities that

The Chaos Theory is an ideology that no matter how small the event is, it will cause another more intricate event in the future ( “What Is Chaos…”). This theory though, is an actual concept used and applied in the science field. Meteorologists use this idea for predicting weather changes, which is what the creator of the theory was doing. (“What Is

The first objective of this research is to focus on the nonlinearity of Henry and Clare in The Time Traveler’s Wife. Nonlinearity or Butterfly Effect connotes that “a small cause can give rise to a large effect” (Hayles: 1990, 11). Therefore, one cannot find answers to nonlinear functions through Newtonian equations. The nonlinear and complicated situation needs the new science of chaos to break the limits and boarders between territories. Hayles proposes a world which ‘chaos’ is the Law of Nature and ‘order’ stands as the Dream of Man. This chaotic world does not present disorder and destruction but, creation and construction. While chaos emerges from the individual, the order is an external force which is created by mankind to take control

For along as humans have kept a written history there have been stories about extraordinary occurrences: telepathic dreams in which the dreamer appears to receive the thoughts of another person or clairvoyant dreams in which the dreamer seemed to be able to observe far away events. Telepathic and clairvoyant dreams, along with precognition and psychokinesis, have been group together and called “psi” by modern-day parapsychologists. These instances of “psi” are described as interactions that occur between organisms and their environment (this includes other organisms) in which information or influence is exchanged that has not been able to be explained by through conventional scientific understanding of sensory-motor coordination. They are thought to be strange or unusual since they appear to occur outside the constraints of time, space, and energy (Krippner, Bogzaran & Carvalho, 2002. Page 93).

A civilization cannot thrive or begin without disorder, reformation, and stability. These three elements show the imbalance in a culture, the effort to change what is, and the ideal way a society should be. The Epoch theory embodies these three things. In the high renaissance, Savonarola’s unexpected take over from the Medici Family can be seen as a representation of the Epoch Theory. During a time in history when art and money were dominated by this wealthy family, citizens meekly sought for a change in the face of power.

If disorder exists, it might have helped me organize my life. My mother has always complained about how disordered and chaotic my room was, but how can she define what order is? Why does she state chaos is disorder? Even though it may seem illogical for most people, my organization is impeccable. I can determine where my Rubik's Dodecahedron is within seconds, or find any given piece of clothing almost without looking. As a curious geek, I consulted Google to support my claims that my room was not disorganized. I found out that disorder does not follow a particular pattern; nevertheless, similarly to my room, chaos does. Sadly, my mother refused to believe me. She insisted on organizing my belongings according to her notion of order.

This exchange exemplifies the way that scientific discovery can be shadowed by human intuition. In his book The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan poses the most accurate way to describe the natural world; anything that can be discovered by humans that is within our cognitive scope is and should be subject to skeptical scientific examination guided by open-minded thinking in order to account for errors in human intuition, as well as clouded judgement due to emotional responses.

The assertion that humans , in and of themselves , “ cause ” anything at all , draws profound assumptions upon the nature of universal cause, imposing a unique vision of particularity upon the fundamental nature of human sentience, not only in its actual applications, but also in its element of the varied latencies .

In 1992 Freeman has suggested the use of complexity for the study of schizophrenia and mood instability in bipolar disorders. (Freeman, 1992). According to Freeman, chaos underlies the brain's ability to respond flexibly to the outside world and to generate a rich variety of patterns, including those that are experienced as new ideas. Chaos thus expresses the unpredictable underlying order of attractors and allows the complex behavior observed in the brain.

In Stoppard’s Arcadia by David Guaspari the article’s main goal is to define the chaos theory in the structure of Arcadia. The author explains how the main idea in Arcadia is that all men desire to know in the sense of Aristotle and in a biblical perspective. The author then continues to talk about the structure of Arcadia and shows how everything in Arcadia is connected , everything is important .He gives many examples from Arcadia about the chaos theory. I do not believe that this article helped contribute to the process of the development of Arcadia but was written as an article researching the aspects of the chaos theory used in Arcadia through the characters. I believed that Vees-Gulani used this article as a reference in her article to

Six years after the disaster of the theme park, Ian Malcolm now presenting his theory on “Life at the Edge of Chaos” at the The Santa Fe Institute. Describing how self-organizing behavior specimens live at the edge of chaos. Resulting that only

This is not a subtle story, but it is also at the same time a story about subtlety. Some things are not going to be fine. Other things will be. Such is the way of the world, some things happen and others do not. In Kurt Vonnegut's Novel entitled Breakfast of Champions he talks a small bit about the nature of order, “There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead” He shows throughout the book that things aren't necessarily connected, and that the small things in all the chaos matter. In the book he often describes things, either about the characters or the setting, that don’t matter to the progression of the story. This allows the story to transform into a work that, while certainly not technically the best story he ever wrote turned it from a story about a writer and a man going insane, into a story that tackles issues as large as free will, and the nature of chaos. Another interesting tidbit from the story, was Vonnegut's personal interaction with the story, which came to a climax when he’s sitting in a bar slightly separated from the main characters in his book, he gave (on what seemed a real, and personal level) a look into his head, so to speak. He said, “I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.” That is how this story begins, in the aptly termed pre-earthquake condition.