Delicate Chaos

It's easy to imagine a chaotic cosmos; all around us, we see evidence that the universe itself is anything but benign. Asteroid impacts, extinction events, the ever-looming threat of gamma ray bursts from distant galaxies... But it's a bit harder to think about unexpected events springing up from a source closer to home: Us. We already know the human brain is one of the most complex and intricate physical objects in the universe; multiply the possibilities of a single human by 7 billion, and you start to understand the magnitude of the situation. A thousand million billion brain cells at work, all resulting in social norms and societal rules that appear organic but are anythin...View all