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I never really understood entropy
How are any of those representations of chaos?
The Butterfly effect is only about so called chaotic systems; discord and weirdness really have no place here (in my opinion); and entropy is just a weird things in thermodynamics that is always misunderstood
Discord, Weirdness & Entropy are forms or aspects of chaos. Discord is the chaos of the psyche (mind and emotions) and the social realm. Weirdness is the chaos that distorts what we call normal, it is the anomalous. Entropy is the cosmic decay of….. well, pretty much anything really, all things will eventually decay into the primal nothingness that began at the beginning, Chaos.
I wouldn’t expect you to understand.
@Heartz13 First of all, there's no need to insinuate anything about my ability to understand. We can avoid such comments. I understand that my comment (now that I've read it after a while) may seem not too nice,.and I'm sorry for that, but I meant the best when writing.
Now, to consider your takes.
Let's start with the Butterfly Effect:
It is merely the idea that something as small as a butterfly can have significant effects over a long time, thus lacking information about chaotic (using the definition from physics, which never really applies in other contexts) systems makes any prediction of the future imprecise. The more time passes, the more likely such a prediction is to be imprecise.
Let us continue with Discord:
It is about an opposition between people/society. It isn't chaotic; it has its reasons to exist, and it can be very clear. Think about the Apple: it caused a fight between deities, not chaos. I do not think that chaos correlates with discord at all.
Then there's Weirdness:
It is but the divergence from the usual. Something different from normalcy is strange, not chaotic. If an alien came knocking at your door you'd find it weird, not chaotic.
And lastly we have Entropy:
Now this is hard. Entropy is a very strange measure for the stability (kind of) of an environment. It is possibly as far as you could get from chaos, something associated with disorder and unbalance. Unfortunately the term is very often thrown around to mean something it really doesn't, and at that point it becomes but a synonym for chaos, which is pointless when discussing aspects of it. Perhaps you have an idea of chaos that is very different to mine, so you consider this equilibrium to be chaotic, but then I worry about what kind of culture you may come from that influenced you in such a way, as, as far as I'm concerned, the English culture does not view chaos as an ordered equilibrium.
I can accept the Butterfly Effect as an aspect of chaos, although I disagree, but I, even while understanding your explanations, cannot accept reasonably (through my knowledge and experience) Entropy, Discord, and Weirdness.
No, I was being a bit of a d!#% myself, I’m kind of like that with people when I’m angry. Something I need to work on, not sure how though.
I am really sorry for being disrespectful to you.
As for your other examples, you seem to do a great job at explaining your factoids and interpretation of this.
I highly disagree with your opinion, but I respect that you did all this. Good job.
What do you think?