Chaos Theory | Sheikh Aous Asfar

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Chaos Theory Sheikh Aous Asfar | Ramadan Night 20 at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo | 2024

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[0:01]as we were going through our discourse we looked at the concept

[0:09]of coincidence and after making it clear that coinciden is actually two

[0:14]incidents that occur in the same time and in the same place

[0:16]we came to the realization that in reality there was a cause

[0:23]to these events that occurred and to them coin coinciding today I

[0:26]told you and I promised you that we would take some time

[0:30]to cover chaos as well now we need to understand chaos in

[0:35]several ways first we need to take a look at the Layman's

[0:38]understanding of chaos defining the term itself and how we normally use

[0:44]it in our everyday lives and then what we want to do

[0:46]is we want to take a look at chaos and science as

[0:51]for chaos in terms of its definition it's defined as when something

[0:57]is chaotic then it is disorganized and so our usage of it

[1:08]as well in normal colloquial language also has the same meaning so

[1:12]when your mother enters your room and it looks disorganized what does

[1:17]she say she says oh my goodness this is so chaotic right

[1:24]I can't handle this chaos you need to organize your room so

[1:29]then chaos becomes what the opposite of organization so chaos comes to

[1:39]mean disorganization as for chaos in terms of is it really a

[1:45]result of coincidence and Randomness it became clear to us I believe

[1:50]yesterday that in actual fact the reason why that room was chaotic

[1:56]wasn't because of Randomness but rather because somebody made a conscious decision

[2:02]to throw his pants under the bed right not to do his

[2:08]bed right to have and place the pizza half bitten under the

[2:11]bed right it didn't walk there and get there by itself yes

[2:16]and so based on that Salam alayum and So based on that

[2:19]we come to understand that in actual fact this understanding of chaos

[2:24]is actually faulty right there's a problem with it because chaos itself

[2:30]if it means disorganization then this organization is a result of conscious

[2:37]decision making right and there's no coincidence or Randomness in conscious decision-

[2:42]making agreed even by the way unconscious decision- making so if a

[2:46]person is unconscious right and he ends up flailing his arms for

[2:51]example right that is still a decision that was made but what

[2:55]by the Natural Forces within the body that caused these flailing to

[3:03]occur right right because of the um uh you know the the

[3:07]neurons for example firing and this causes the muscle to whichever muscle

[3:12]it may be let's say of the arm you know to move

[3:15]or for example when you're sleeping you might say well you know

[3:18]I you know when I sleep I tend to you know smack

[3:22]someone whoever's sleeping next to me sh this doesn't happen or if

[3:25]I get up and I walk during my sleep this is a

[3:28]there are causes for this to occur this doesn't happen randomly or

[3:31]without a reason agreed if you agree say I agree so chaos

[3:38]then as we understand it is not random as well it is

[3:46]not without cause chaos meaning disorganization is a result of conscious decisions

[3:52]that are made or reasons or causes other than that in this

[3:56]system everything has a cause and an effect agreed you agree say

[4:00]I agree now let's look at that scientific understanding of chaos and

[4:09]for those of us who've studied physics right and taken the laws

[4:15]of thermodynamics we know that chaos is depicted by the term entropy

[4:21]right depicted by the symbol Sigma it's something's ability to become disorganized

[4:28]the greater or the more chaotic the more disorganized the higher the

[4:33]entropy the number of um assigned to that Sigma that I just

[4:39]mentioned agreed if you agree say I agree right now the question

[4:41]is where did we come to this understanding scientifically that something comes

[4:50]into disorganization if it is uh unorganized by someone okay this came

[4:55]to us from a man by the name of Robert Brown a

[4:57]scientist a biologist in actual fact who in his time and I

[5:04]believe it was in the 1800s where what he did was he

[5:10]had some pollen he placed it on some water on a slide

[5:12]he looked at it under a microscope he noticed he noticed that

[5:18]the pollen was moving haphazardly in what looked to be a random

[5:22]pattern of motion okay now if it was random I don't know

[5:27]why we would assign the term pattern to it but you because

[5:30]pattern implies organization right so anyway so that the pollen was moving

[5:34]halfhazard and so he said oh so everything then goes to disorganization

[5:41]unless it is organized now Einstein comes along a few years later

[5:49]in the early 1900s okay and what does he do he revisits

[5:54]this idea of Brownian motion and he looks at it and he

[6:01]knows being as smart as he is as a physicist and a

[6:04]mathematician he thinks well hang on every effect has a cause Mak

[6:11]sense if it makes sense say makes sense right every effect has

[6:15]a cause so it's got to be that something is causing this

[6:21]motion to occur and what does he do he uncovers that in

[6:24]actual fact it was the water molecules that were bombarding the pollen

[6:32]at a specific acceleration and in a specific direction of motion that

[6:37]was causing the pollen grains to actually move at the speed that

[6:42]they were moving and in the direction that they were moving and

[6:46]so not only did Einstein uncover the acceleration the number of molecules

[6:53]but also atoms and so it became clear that in actual fact

[7:03]Robert Brown did not know or was not aware of the fact

[7:08]that in act that this was a result of a cause that

[7:12]it was an effect now another two important scientists that are important

[7:19]to mention here are Edward lons in the 1960s he was an

[7:24]he was a professor at Harvard he studied atmospheric phenomenon or phenomena

[7:31]and climactic change and at that time in the early 1960s people

[7:35]thought that atmospheric and climactic change was something that was random what

[7:43]he uncovered was an algorithm through which you can actually predict climactic

[7:51]change and he determined that in actual fact every atmospheric and climactic

[8:01]change that we have has a cause and that cause was unknown

[8:04]to us and so we assumed that it was random because we

[8:11]didn't know you see and so he proved that in actual fact

[8:16]just because we don't know that something is organized or the reason

[8:22]why it moves the way it moves or does what it does

[8:24]he said that doesn't mean that we shouldn't assume or that doesn't

[8:30]mean that we should assume that it's random we should actually be

[8:34]patient enough and study it so that then we can uncover the

[8:36]reality that is behind that incident or that effect or that occurrence

[8:42]because at the ultimately in this world of cause and effect it

[8:44]has to be an effect to a cause makes sense if it

[8:48]makes sense it makes sense next we look at a man by

[8:53]the name of benoa Mel BR and of course by the way

[8:54]Edward lauron is the father of what is called The Butterfly Effect

[8:58]which is the idea that if somebody sneezes in one side of

[9:01]the world there might be a hurricane in the other side of

[9:04]the world that's how media interpret it interpreted it for us but

[9:08]that's not exactly what he said right but basically the idea that

[9:10]everything basically has a cause and everything is interconnected in this in

[9:14]this in this world the second important name as well and by

[9:19]the way um it was Edward lauron that coined the term Chaos

[9:23]Theory so in actual fact Chaos Theory refers to the fact that

[9:28]everything is actually organized right not that things occur randomly and are

[9:34]disorganized isn't that interesting how media has changed the usage and how

[9:41]we have changed the usage in this world to imply that it

[9:43]was a result of coincidence next benw menel brought right 15 phds

[9:48]held the seat of Einstein until he passed away about I believe

[9:52]about uh 4 five years ago right and he is the father

[9:58]of fractal mathematics and what did he study he in his in

[10:04]one of his phds was studying how to measure the um size

[10:07]of the UK and when he looked at it he said well

[10:11]how do I measure the the uh uh you know um uh

[10:16]the jagged edges of the side of a body of uh uh

[10:19]of a land mass that is being constantly bombarded by the ocean

[10:23]right by the Sea so now logically speaking we know that everything

[10:27]is created out of atoms right agreed so it's either compacted as

[10:33]a solid or less compacted as a liquid or even less compacted

[10:36]as a gas right so that means then if that's the case

[10:41]then everything moves and and and and interacts with the other in

[10:45]a very organized way agreed agreed if you agree say I agree

[10:48]So based on that Beno brought he also thought the same thing

[10:50]so he studied this phenomenon and he uncovers an algorithm as well

[10:56]right through which he determines that everything really starts from a very

[10:59]small instance that is repeated over and over so for example water

[11:05]would not be the liquid that we see unless it's the repetition

[11:07]of what of the instance of H2O over and over and over

[11:13]how many million molecules would end up allow allow us to see

[11:16]it in its form in a glass right versus if it's dispersed

[11:20]in the atmosphere we can't really see the water agreed yes so

[11:25]he determines then as well that everything really is organized right and

[11:30]starts with an instance so even when you see smoke it's not

[11:33]halfhazard when the smoke is being pushed right and left it's because

[11:38]of the motion of the wind when the ocean waves are rising

[11:45]and and coming down it's the reason why is what is because

[11:47]of air pressure right it's because of the movement of the tectonic

[11:50]plates Below in the below the ocean right so there is constantly

[11:56]a cause to every effect so Ben menel brought what does he

[11:58]say he says what we see as Randomness is actually an extreme

[12:01]form of organization agreeing with with Edward uh luron and thereby proving

[12:08]that in actual fact everything is in a supreme form of organization

[12:14]but we don't know it until we are able to reach in

[12:18]our technological advancements the ability to uncover this reality you see muham

[12:28]mam so now we understand then coincidence we understand Randomness we understand

[12:36]chaos right and we ask what is the reason why people want

[12:42]us to believe thisa that chaos exists in the way that they

[12:45]want us to believe it as Randomness we say the reason why

[12:49]is because they want us to think that this world came out

[12:50]of nothing that there was no purpose to it right and as

[12:55]a result what happens as a result we end up thinking this

[12:57]world and this life is aimless because things can just happen without

[13:02]a reason right and so we live aimless lives and we're looking

[13:05]for the media right and the Moguls to control us as consumers

[13:10]because we need to connect to something so if we want to

[13:15]live aimless lives and connect to ourselves to consumerism then we're going

[13:20]to believe that everything is random but the reality is that nothing

[13:23]is random that everything is part of an organized supremely organized system

[13:41]mamad

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