lbo-talk-digest V1 #5208

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 5 07:06:57 PST 2001


Daniel Davies wrote:
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> All the rightist chaos theory
> apologetics along the lines Michael has descrbied (or at least, all of it
> that I've seen) has been at a very shallow level of udnerstanding indeed.
>
Would it be possible to expand this and say all the chaos theory not written by mathematicians or physicists has been a very shallow level of understanding indeed -- that understanding usually being a mere series of speculations around the suggestiveness of the word "chaos"? I have read some very obtuse literary criticism playing with the _word_ rather than with any real knowledge of chaos theory. (I have no such knowledge myself, just some sense of what it is _not_.)

One can find similar playtime activity around the word "entropy," and around the second law of thermodynamics.

Carrol



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