"Ordered Chaos" explains itself, bringing order to chaos. A basic example could be our bodies, which in some ways could be considered the orderly entity enacting with the disorder around us, the world.
In order to survive, we are guided by an unwritten law, order within chaos (some say "natural law"). This order is an example of preventing self-harm or for keeping an entire species from going extinct. So, whether it is "us" or the natural world, there is order and there is chaos and the integration in some ways allows order to prevail according to the concept of "ordered chaos" and the need to survive.
Consciousness is another example of chaos, but perhaps not "orderly chaos." Chaos theory is defined as "a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions." "Chaos" states that within the apparent randomness of complex systems there are patterns, repetition, similarity, and organization - all relying on programming at the initial point known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. The definition exhibits that chaos is quantifiable as it applies to the world. Consciousness on the other hand, does not have to be quantified and perhaps can't be. Freud theorized that our conscious and emotions are all dependent on past experiences/emotions. This isn't always the case. We can have a conscious based on something that is happening in our lives at the very moment that it happens and the reaction can be mutually exclusive from past experiences. In some ways, consciousness is just chaos and patterns for certain take place, but these patterns can be broken by new experiences and thus interpretation can change, consciousness can change without any existence of order.
Hi Taylor, it's Dmitrius again. My name hasn't shown up on some comment posts so outing it here just in case. I like that we disagree quite a bit in class, no different here! I think the opposite about consciousness, that it is not akin to chaos, but far more aligned with order. In fact, consciousness sort of epitomizes order, and perhaps everything else could be said to be in the domain of chaos as we understand the dichotomy of the terms. Order is a funny thing - like who says it's order? What makes it orderly? How is that distinguished? How can you tell that something is of the domain of order and not of the domain of chaos? Even in an uber/platonic sense, there needs to be a consciousness that recognizes it, a something that grasps the concept apart from the other noise.
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