We exist due to the unpredictability of our parents meeting. Our personality and physical appearance (and some might say our destiny) emerge from the unpredictability of conception when one of millions of our father’s sperm reaches our mother’s fertilised egg.
We begin, and live out our entire lives in a world that is on the one hand beautifully ordered and symmetrical (as we described in the previous Chapter) and at the same time utterly chaotic.
Chaos is a reality in our lives, and affects us profoundly whether we like it or not.
This Chapter is about chaos and topics which I feel are related, such as critical mass, and finishes with a description of the relevance of fractals and self-similarity (all of which will be described below) in working with people in distress.
It is divided into seven Sub-Chapters.
4.2.1 CHAOS, CRITICAL MASS AND FRACTALS – INTRODUCTION
4.2.2 CHAOS
4.2.3 CRITICAL MASS
4.2.4 STRESS AND STRAIN
4.2.5 APPLICATIONS OF CHAOS THEORY, FRACTAL GEOMETRY AND SELF-SIMILARITY