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I like the non-deterministic

I like the non-deterministic approach the most.  There are so many examples of randomness in science- more so I believe than ordered phenomena.  At first when observing the world around you, you might think that organization dominates.  But when you examine the essense of what we perceive as organized, these things are often based in random disorganized phenomena.  Like Kathy mentioned, what we perceive as random could in fact possess an inherent pattern that we can not process.  This can go both ways though.  What if something we perceive as organized is actually random.  Sounds absurd, but there is a huge gap between what actually is and what each unique human mind perceives as what is.  It has been mentioned that in the non-deterministic model that ordered phenomena can be a result of randomness. This can be true, but what if all organization is a temporary state in the process of becoming more random.  This is a bit all over the place, but some things I've been thinking about....

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