Chaotic Pet Peeves
I'll tell you what really frosts me: when I say I do nonlinear dynamical modeling, and then tell the blank fish eyes confronting me that I do chaos theory, and they say, oh, I know all about that..., and just as I start to get excited about having found some sort of kindred spirit, they finish off with, ...from my desk. Makes me want to hand out the Gleick book like Gideons hand out bibles. Maybe we should start our press releases with, "Sure, you saw Jurassic Park, but what has chaos theory done for you lately?"
posted by Meg at 11:24 AM
1 Comments:
Meg -
I think we need to take the devil's advocate position and look at the media as a source of support and not a 'down dumber' of the principles of the chaos theory.
The DVD for the Butterfly Effect has an excellent look at the psychological aspects of this subject. The movie Pi also gets into some of the more abstract ones. Even the movie Contact mentions it in passing. The Ultimate Matrix DVD series gives it context with other contemporary
philosophical advances, modern, post-modern and now integral.
So while we'd love to have everyone out to Sante Fe for
an intensive, we can begin to
view the media as less of an enemy.
It's a lazy world, MRF 05.07
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