The Relative Proportions Of Order And Chaos

There are two classes of object; the stable and the chaotic, the certain and uncertain. This is also analagous to the correct and incorrect. Chaos is defined by unpredictability. It is not random, but the result of any action upon it is fundamentally unpredictable. Stability is the opposite and exactly predictable.

I believe that the proportion of certain to uncertain is a universal constant, that errors cannot be predicted but that their occurance is highly predictable in the long term. I think that information however non-corporeal, including mathematics behaves like the physical universe, and that it has the same limitations of predictability and accuracy as the sub-atomic world, that information is quantised.

A certain proportion of any statement is erronious, and by extension a certian proportion of any communcation is erronius. This is a fundamental part of nature and not a flaw in the method of communciation. A certain proportion of every piece of information is erronius. Information is effectively quantized so that information can be broken into smaller and smaller pieces until it is indivisable, at which point those bits of information are active or inactive, pure truth or pure error but and erronious in proportions when considered as a population or over time. The ratio of chaos to stability might be a Feigenbaum constant.

It's not possible to deliberately create an error. That fact creates a gulf between doing something deliberately and doing something accidentally, because an error is by definition accidental. A certain quantity of errors or mistakes will take place in any act, therefore every error or mistake that occurs prevents a mistake elsewhere. Mistakes can occur in spatial or time dimensions.

Perfection is attainable then, if it includes mistakes. A perfect universe includes a fixed proportion of perfection and imperfection, and that recognition grants us a vision of perfection.

Mark Sheeky, 4 March 2010