I’m sitting in a sweetgreens in Manhattan as I type. From one vantage, one of the most orderly human spaces on the planet. The food bowls are in the same shape, assembled in a factory line, and transacted for touchless apple payment every 16 seconds.
And even so, most of the air molecules that surround me are, from most zoom scales, in totally random positions. Most electromagnetic radiation (outside of color) is totally crazy and chaotic and has no pattern to me. Rather than staying sitted where they are, the most orderly possibility, people are constantly coming in and out. Quarks are going bezerk.
From most vantages, Boltzman appears right: randomness prevails. From a special human vantage, one which looks for order, order seems to prevail.
Good order-finders are bound to find themselves, with pleasant shock, surrounded by order. Not only because it’s a precondition (order finders can only exist in spaces that support them) but also because it’s teleology (it’s what they’re looking for) That they find order has no bearing on whether the larger space is random.
I’m sitting in a sweetgreens in Manhattan as I type. From one vantage, one of the most orderly human spaces on the planet. The food bowls are in the same shape, assembled in a factory line, and transacted for touchless apple payment every 16 seconds.
And even so, most of the air molecules that surround me are, from most zoom scales, in totally random positions. Most electromagnetic radiation (outside of color) is totally crazy and chaotic and has no pattern to me. Rather than staying sitted where they are, the most orderly possibility, people are constantly coming in and out. Quarks are going bezerk.
From most vantages, Boltzman appears right: randomness prevails. From a special human vantage, one which looks for order, order seems to prevail.
Good order-finders are bound to find themselves, with pleasant shock, surrounded by order. Not only because it’s a precondition (order finders can only exist in spaces that support them) but also because it’s teleology (it’s what they’re looking for) That they find order has no bearing on whether the larger space is random.