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   %CHAOS THEORY REFLEX FEED-BACK LOOP CAUSE EFFECT+940406
   %SMALL DIFFERENCE START CONCLUDE CATASTROPHE JOY+940406
     %TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE FUNDAMENTAL LAW LEGALISTIC 940406

    Chaos theory offers a way to understand how it is that
people who apparently agree with each other about how life
should  be  regulated---often  disagree  among  themselves
and/or  with others whom reason suggests should all  agree
among  themselves.   Chaos theory deals with the multitude
of   situations  wherein  small  initial  differences   in
beginning conditions are amplified through feed-back loops
of   cause  and  effect  into  major  difference  in   the
consequences   which   flow   from   the   small   initial
differences.      Because   of  the  nature  of  reflexive
relationships---which entail many feed-back loops  whereby
participants'   actions reflect back upon themselves---our
reflexive  relationships are highly likely  to  illustrate
the phenomena which chaos theory illuminates.  This is not
as  true in the  case  of  objective  relationships  where
reflexive phenomena are nearly,  but not entirely, absent;
and so feed-back loops do not play so major a role.

    People who seek to regulate life in terms of carefully
constructed systems of rules,  laws, regulations,  taboos,
proscriptions,   and prescriptions---which are based  upon
expectations,    descriptions, predictions and theories of
cause  and effect---often fail because  they  are  dealing
with reflexive relationships wherein  a  web  of feed-back
loops lead to repeated illustrations of chaotic processes.
Chaotic   processes  cannot  be  accurately  and  reliably
predicted, and so there is  no reliable basis for adopting
and  enforcing  any system of rules,  laws,   regulations,
taboos,  proscriptions and/or prescriptions.   In  chaotic
processes   there   is   no  fully   reliable   basis  for
expectations, descriptions,   predictions  and theories of
cause  and effect---which  are all founded primarily  upon
long past experience.

    When we are confronted with chaotic processes we  must
be  ever observant of current conditions and  processes---
and  make  decisions  and  engage  in  actions  which  are
responsive  to  very  recent changes in processes,insights
and perceptions within our context.   Ancient truths often
become  uncouth  within chaotic contexts,   especially  if
ancient truths are absolutised to the exclusion of careful
attention  to and consideration of recent  changes in  our
contexts and existential perceptions.  If we seek to guide
our  lives  exclusively in terms of ancient truths we  are
likely  to  become uncouth;   i.e.,   insensitive  to  the
experiences and sensibilities of people around us,  and so
unloving.

    True  love is not preoccupied with systems  of  rules,
laws,     regulations,    taboos,    proscriptions,    and
prescriptions---which  are  based  upon old  expectations,
descriptions,   predictions  and  theories  of  cause  and
effect.   True love is not inclined towards seeking to  be
in   control   or   trying  to  accurately   predict   the
consequences  of  people's decisions  and  actions---apart
from  constant  sensitivity  to  changing  conditions  and
contexts.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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