CHAOS: Historical meaning
Charles François (2004). CHAOS: Historical meaning, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 414.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 414 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Originally a greek word meaning chasm, abyss. This derived toward meanings like undifferentiated, confused, disordered, shapeless.
E. SCHWARZ, in his “Systemic Glossary”(in french) states “Chaos: Initial unorganized state of the world in Hesiod's cosmogony (8th b.C.) in which is it nevertheless possible to recognize the primeval dyad Gaia and Ouranos, as well as the primeval Eros, the dynamical principle”(1993, p. 2)
Curiously this type of chaos never went away from human minds. Its more recent expressions are the Big Bang and its first moment “inflation”, or the recent resurgence of the aether as the locus of materialization of paired particles (positive and negative) out of …a “something-nothing”
See also
Entelechy