Coexistence of order and chaos

Today, on 4 November 2004, as I start to write this preface, worldometers.info shows that the current population of the earth is 6,433,096,068 during the last 24 h, 203,063 people have been born, but only 83,498 have died. As usual, CNN pours out the latest news around the clock, convincingly illustrating the simultaneous coexistence of order and chaos in human society. 

I think that the human cortex created human society and is responsible for its maintenance and continuous progress. The history of science shows that natural laws are simple and gray, but the phenomena brought into existence by them, however, are immensely complex and colorful. It has been the aim of my life to find a reasonable physiological explanation for the coexistence of order and chaos in human communities. In this study, I summarize the most important findings of my research in support of the ultimate conclusion that the unique ability of the human cortex to acquire drives created human society, a society which is still in the myths-directed trial and error phase of its development and aims to find its reason-directed final equilibrium state. 

Simultaneous Coexistence of Determinants of Order and Chaos in the Human Brain An Approach to the Origins of Science and Art... 

The concrete biochemistry of cortical enhancer regulation, the puzzle of the amalgamation of order and chaos in the human brain is still unsolved. As usual, attractive descriptions remedy such deficiencies. Freud s work was the hitherto most influential description of the coexistence of rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious, in the human brain. It is no accident that his fascinating writings, enjoyable readings closer to fiction than science, have always deeply influenced many artists. Freud also provided a delightful interpretation of dreams at the boundary between art and science. It was probably the pseudo-scientific nature of his brilliant books that precluded him from receiving the well-deserved Nobel Prize for literature. 

The essential character of thermal phenomena becomes clear, the conditions of coexistence of solids, liquids, and gases in systems of any number of chemical components are explained, the dependence of equilibria upon concentrations, upon pressure, and upon temperature is defined. The conceptions of entropy and free energy, of statistical equilibrium and energy distribution, provide quantitative laws which describe the perpetual conflict of order and chaos, and which prescribe in a large measure not only the shapes assumed by the material world but also the pattern of its possible changes. 

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