Intrinsitivity

It seems to me that randomness is a measure of ignorance and not a state of affairs without directed action or purpose. Any event can be analyzed for patterns of activity. When such patterns are discovered, that event is given order.

Yet, in a very real sense, the event in question had order prior to our recognition of it. In other words, our recognition of order did not endow the event with order. It simply gave us a sense of order in the event.

Words like “chance” and “chaos” express our ignorance of order, not the lack of it. To think otherwise is to think that thoughts shape reality. If thoughts shaped reality, then we would live in a very chaotic world, indeed.

Recognizing order allows us to create more of it or, if we choose, to decrease it, creating more chaotic conditions. Norbert Wiener might say that our recognition of order creates a feedback loop whereby we gain control over an inherently entropic system.