Chaos Poem Analysis

Human beings live their life full of questions. Those questions could be answered in two ways: the response of the scientist, or the response of the poet. I mean by the response of the scientist all the technical details that will prove the theory. On the other hand, the poet gives a more spiritual answer. For instance, “How does one die?” the scientist’s answer is: “all bodily functions, such as the brain, the heart, and the lungs stop functioning” the poet’s answer is: “one never dies, one always remains in the heart of those who remember him”.

To discuss the concept of chaos, we must consider both answers. The scientist will concentrate on Gödel’s theory of incompleteness, the Mandelbrot set, the butterfly effect, self-similarity in fractals,

According to the Oxford dictionary, “chaos” means: ”complete disorder and confusion” , or “the property of a complex system whose behavior is so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions”. It is an ancient word originally denoting a complete lack of form or systematic arrangement, but now often used to imply the absence of some kind of order that ought to be present. It was used by scientists to denote randomness of one sort or another. Edward N. Lorenz gives another meaning of the word “Chaos”:” what is random and what looks random. Chaos may refer to what appears to proceed according to chance even though their behavior is in fact determined by precise laws (3-4). Robert C. Hilborn in his Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers describes chaos as “the apparently complex behavior of what we consider to be simple, well-behaved systems. Chaotic behavior, when looked at, casually looks erratic and almost random” (3). In science, the term chaos is related to nonlinearity, complexity, and fractality (Hilborn,

An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes." (Cambel, 7-8) Determinism an event is caused by certain conditions that cannot possibly lead to any other outcome. "Laplace's Demon" concerns the idea of determinism, namely the belief that the past completely determines the future. Clearly, one can see why determinism was so attractive to scientists (and philosophers — determinism has roots that can be traced back to Socrates). Indeed, this passage had a strong influence on setting the course of science for years to come, and by the early 1800's determinism had become very firmly entrenched among many scientists. In Laplace's world everything would be predetermined — no chance, no choice, and no