I would respond, and I think Rol's experientially based communication
suggests, that "chaos" does not exist in the realm of living things.
At least not in the realm of intelligent beings.
What does exist is things that we don't understand explicitly. Maybe
even things we can't currently understand implicity - although I'm
not so sure about this one.
But that we don't understand something and can't "make sense" of
something is not a comment on the world and therefor does not
indicate chaos. So, "chaos", in our ordinary useage does not reflect
the world but our internal states - our understanding - of the world
at a moment in time.
(In a technical sense, chaos refers to mathematical ways of
understanding a certain category of phenomena which can be understood
by applying certain formulae.)
The challenge we have is to make sense, make meaning, create
understanding and that would be impossible if the world were chaotic
in the ordinary sense of the word.
--
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