Chaos, the Ability to Perceive Options

I promised this thread on another discussion thread and now...I have to deliver.
Just what makes Chaos Magic(k) chaotic?
We are beings with the ability to perceive many things but is Chaos one of them?
How, as organized life forms, are we able to conceptualize Chaos and then produce a 'system' of magic that utilizes this principle? (the idea of a 'system' implies order by its very nature)
A close friend and I are in the middle of this debate...he's a Molecular Biophysisist and I'm a dropout. He claims evidence of chaos exists in many ways and I've asked him to illustrate this. So far I've not heard of anything objective. True, we can say 'chaos' and write 'chaos' but we are doing so with the tools of order.
Let me bow out for awhile and let the over heated air cool and invite ideas from the Forum. Remember, this is a debate/discussion and we should agree to disagree rather than slinging shots! OK? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

How is it that a rock is a rock and not just whatever you wish it to be? Where does Order come in? Or is it all just Chaos in various continually morphimg 'forms'?

You didnt run searches and learn about what I advised would enlighten you did you?

Well.... fine, I've ran the searches myself. READ!

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041220/pf/041220-12_pf.html

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/feb9/hup.html
The last line in this article should read, "This notion has interesting consequences for nuclear fusion in stars, (here's where I butt in) AND in the practice and perception of magical acts such as enchantment, evocation and sigil magic.

Also look up Superposition, Entanglement, Entropy, M Theory, String Theory and Chaos Theory itself as they all have direct applications and relavence when one wishes to learn about how Chaotic our universe is.

"Since the Big Bang we have enjoyed Order, in part."

I would say that we have enjoyed Chaos totally since the Big Bang, or whatever it was that caused all the background radiation (M Theory goes into this in great depth.), there was no chaos before the BB because there were no physical systems for chaos to manifest within. The BB was the first act of chaos.

This post has been edited by Alarum: Jul 13 2005, 07:12 PM