Chaos is not only how we grow as human beings, but is also a fundamental law of nature.
In 1977 a Nobel Prize was rewarded to a man by the name of Ilya Prigogine. He was a chemist who studied the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If a tree falls in a forest and lays on the ground, it will go through entropy and decay. As time goes on it will fall apart, eroding into further chaos.
The same can be said of our own relationships with friends and family. If left neglected for very long, can fall apart. This is the Second Law at work. It’s true in our everyday lives as well as in nature.
But Prigogine got his Nobel Prize for an observation that seems contrary or completely the opposite. He said nature creates ORDER out of chaos. Usually when you take a normal organism or compound, and put energy into it, it’ll take the energy in and pass it out. Kind of like when we go through our daily routines, activities, food, conversation, we manipulate it and pass it out in the form of energy.
However, when we start adding more ENERGY, to the point of overloading it and under extreme pressure, something very interesting happens. When there’s too many problems to deal with. In physics they call this “perturbation”. Perturbation simply means upsetting the status quo. This is where GREATNESS comes from.
Prigogine’s observation showed that increasing the amount of energy to the point of overloading it, will start to vibrate and quiver. As the pressure increases, the vibrating increases to where it seems like it can’t handle anymore. Kind of like when you have so much stressed to the point where one more thing will make you scream. It looks like everything is about to collapse. But in the RIGHT conditions, something else happens.
This observation is what Prigogine got the Nobel Prize for.
When a system reaches this perturbation threshold, UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, it doesn’t fall apart. It doesn’t collapse, It crosses a line into consciousness.
It actually transforms and evolves into a more complex structure that is able to handle more pressure.
Like the tree that falls and decays in the forest. As it sinks and goes through entropy and goes through the pressure of earth over time, it transforms into coal. Under even more pressure and heat, the same coal ultimately turns into a diamond. A substance that is way more complex and stronger, able to handle incredible amounts of pressure.
When working out, your muscles feel like they’re about to explode, like you can’t handle any more, but instead your muscles grow and develop. You become more adapted and able to handle more weight, pressure.
In nature, transformation and growth occur under chaos and pressure, by upsetting the status quo and by overloading existing situations. This is my perspective of consciousness out of chaos, and how nature wants you to GO FOR IT!
The same can be said of our own relationships with friends and family. If left neglected for very long, can fall apart. This is the Second Law at work. It’s true in our everyday lives as well as in nature.
But Prigogine got his Nobel Prize for an observation that seems contrary or completely the opposite. He said nature creates ORDER out of chaos. Usually when you take a normal organism or compound, and put energy into it, it’ll take the energy in and pass it out. Kind of like when we go through our daily routines, activities, food, conversation, we manipulate it and pass it out in the form of energy.
However, when we start adding more ENERGY, to the point of overloading it and under extreme pressure, something very interesting happens. When there’s too many problems to deal with. In physics they call this “perturbation”. Perturbation simply means upsetting the status quo. This is where GREATNESS comes from.
Prigogine’s observation showed that increasing the amount of energy to the point of overloading it, will start to vibrate and quiver. As the pressure increases, the vibrating increases to where it seems like it can’t handle anymore. Kind of like when you have so much stressed to the point where one more thing will make you scream. It looks like everything is about to collapse. But in the RIGHT conditions, something else happens.
This observation is what Prigogine got the Nobel Prize for.
When a system reaches this perturbation threshold, UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, it doesn’t fall apart. It doesn’t collapse, It crosses a line into consciousness.
It actually transforms and evolves into a more complex structure that is able to handle more pressure.
Like the tree that falls and decays in the forest. As it sinks and goes through entropy and goes through the pressure of earth over time, it transforms into coal. Under even more pressure and heat, the same coal ultimately turns into a diamond. A substance that is way more complex and stronger, able to handle incredible amounts of pressure.
When working out, your muscles feel like they’re about to explode, like you can’t handle any more, but instead your muscles grow and develop. You become more adapted and able to handle more weight, pressure.
In nature, transformation and growth occur under chaos and pressure, by upsetting the status quo and by overloading existing situations. This is my perspective of consciousness out of chaos, and how nature wants you to GO FOR IT!
