Humans don't want order. They want control. Control and order are two entirely separate things. You can find order in chaos. Order can be perceived as patterns within chaos. What most humans want is control. They don't care if there is or isn't a pattern, they want to be able to control it until it is the pattern they want. Some people seek to create chaos, that is their control. Others wish to subdue chaos by creating a pattern, so long as it is a pattern they dictate. We all do it to varying degrees. Our life is spent in a perpetual attempt of controlling that which exists around us. We all do it in different ways. One kid might put things together in a nice orderly fashion, another might destroy it yet they are both exercising the same force. Control.Surface Reflection wrote:Ok, so... what we call second law of thermodynamics is a part of the larger process.
That process is change. Everything changes in this universe. Nothing remains the same. But it doesnt change in any random direction. It has a "direction".
And that direction is increase in complexity. Everything in this universe is getting more and more complex. Every single thing you can think of. The Universe itself came from a point of ultimate simplicity. First there was only energy spreading after the big bang, then that energy coalesced into first subatomic particles - then into atoms - which then created galaxies and planets and first simple life forms that differentiated into all life forms we know about today and into animals and people and these forums right here and Josh who is hard at work in creating something more beautiful and complex then there was before.
He keeps adding more and more stuff to it. There is more different kinds of ships, more systems, more stuff to do and explore etc, etc etc. The basic idea of procedural creation of content that the game is built upon is - increase in complexity - but not in just any random direction. right?
Stop. Step back, take a wide view.
Humans often tend to talk about chaos and order. We try to simplify nature into two extremes. Chaos is bad and order is good. As if those are two separate different things. One bad, another good. We also have these ideas of evil and good. Also simplified extremes that we rarely see in reality which is always more complex then that.
We would like to keep this "order" and make it eternal and we would like the "chaos" to stop, because its like "bad".
But that "order" is nothing but attempt to make things simpler, less complex, less changeable. Static. It never worked and never will. No empire lasted eternal, no matter how powerful, never will.
And who are the "greatest evils" in our history? Who caused greatest wars and greatest suffering? Those who tried to simplify things by force. Nazis, faschists, racists, religious nazis, all those who wished and wish for an extreme of simplification. All in a struggle against Universe itself.
Nothing is static. Everything changes and everything changes in such a way that its becoming more and more complex.
Take a look at any illustration of the evolution of the universe. What do you see?
Things are not becoming simpler.
Try to come up with any single thing thats becoming simpler.. Our knowledge? Language? Everyday life? Clothes we wear? Food we eat? Religion? Technology? Industry - any industry? Any branch of science? Astronomy? How about them extra solar planets Kepler discovered? Are those solar sytsems all the same, simple, or each more and more different and complex then we ever imagine before? Do our relationships become simpler or more complex with time? First its only you, then there is someone you love and suddenly there are these new creatures being created out of you two who are at first small and very simple but then become more and more demanding and complex.
There are more details to it but... do you catch my drift?
Chaos is good, order is evil. Down with Baator scum!!
One might say the universe exerts the same force. Or is it the universe? Is it a supreme being? Is it divine? Who knows, but we can all see very plainly that there is control in the universe. Forces that form patterns and thus order in an otherwise chaotic existence. Yet the force never truly prevails, as the universe still exists in chaos. Chaos with purpose perhaps. I have no watched the video but I have often pondered such things on my own so I might give it a go.
The results of logic, of natural progression? Boring! An expected result? Dull! An obvious next step? Pfui! Where is the fun in that? A dream may soothe, but our nightmares make us run!
