From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 09:36:57 MST
[Daemonikan]
If there is no beginning then there must be no end. From what I gather, the Church of Virus is about reason. Is the statement I made... reasonable? How will you explain this... phenomenon?
[rhinoceros]
You can easily create a mathematical model having a beginning but no end, or having an end but no beginning. Just draw a half-line. Nothing irrational there, and you can in fact prove things.
The interesting part is when you try to fit this model to something real. Then you will have a theory of physics (or economics or anything else) which should be verifiable and falsifiable (but not provable). This is the way things work, so it is rational.
[Daemonikan]
Chaos is but a theory. It cannot be proven so therefore it is not within reason.
[rhinoceros]
Chaos theory is a mathematical theory still under developement. They are trying to make it cover all kinds of situations where even a tiny change in the initial conditions results in a very different behavior of a system (nonlinear systems with a lot of feedback). Other than this, my previous point applies here too.
[Daemonikan]
The main attraction in all fables is symbolism. I am not sure what \"Chaos\" represents but I do know that \"Chronus\" represents Time (Chron-) and \"Gaia\" is Earth. Perhaps, Chaos is empty space, but in Time the Earth developed its soil somewhere within that space. But is it reasonable to say Chaos is empty? There has to be conflicting attributes of Chaos otherwise it\'s Peace.
[rhinoceros]
I myself enjoy trying to fit mythological symbolisms into modern theories, but I realize that I cheat, because the ancients have said everything and the only thing I have to do is choose something relevant.
Sometimes, however, when some mythological symbolisms fit too well, I wonder whether mythologies have led us to develop a specific outlook of the world and fitting mathematical models.
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