An anarchic self-organizing universe

[Mark Kohut]

JT writes:
"Anarchy itself as a term may be more descriptive than prescriptive.
Anarchy can be viewed as randomness within the physical parameters of the
universe. Much of current science sees life and human existence not as
resulting from or guided by goals or a planning intelligence but by random
activity. In that sense Anarchy is not so much collapse of order as the
actual underlying reality. In this view the universe is ungoverned and
ungovernable; it’s dissolution started with the accidental nature of it’s
origin. This line of thought says we are experiencing a virtual event
governed by rules that guarantee extinction."


A philosopher, perhaps America's greatest, Charles S. Pierce, some of whose
writings I know, has this basic scientific (and beyond, therefore
metaphysical in some way) argument about the cosmos.

Simplified it goes like this: The universe has to be experiencing
(anarchic) surprises within its cosmic vastness, or else, given eternity
enough in time, everything would ALREADY be in an entropic state. At the
least, it is one way to question/explain the 'surprise' that the big bang
seems to be.

Pierce also did some thinking about 'self-organizing'--that anarchy
thing--,not least in the above cosmic context.
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