SIMPLY PARAPHRASTIC
The Brain has a hundred trillion
Neural connections, making it
The most complex structure
In the known Universe -
There are your thoughts
And then there is the
Background noise: like
Reading a book.
It would be easy to imagine
Perhaps, that they resonate
Within alternate hemispheres
Of the Brain…
And then alchemically cohere
In a transmutation like this
Shortstack: but the Brain
Is beyond knowing…
Let us return to the ability
Of some biological systems
To self-organize
And to possess a History.
In certain slime molds
It has been established
That constituent cells both
Communicate and systematize.
There is a bifurcation point
At which these cells transition
From determinism to free-choice
From equilibrium to instability.
It is difficult to disentangle
Order and Chaos: Yet Free-Choice
Appears to exist in biotic systems
Resulting in an ordered randomness.
Social structures, like ant-hills
Are the result of a few decisions
Made in conditions of instability
Ordered by a process of aggregation.
How do such complex systems
Manage to avoid permanent chaos?
Ants communicate by depositing
Hormonal attractants
Resulting is an incremental
Aggregation of structural stability.
Nothing to do with Democracy
A lot more like Ant Anarchy.
Ironically: the faster that feedback
Exists within a system the greater
The percentage of failed fluctuations
That then bolster the system.
We are experiencing a period
Of Global Instability, yet within
This precarity there remains
Hope for an emergent stability.
Here in the Empire of Chaos
We are again ruled by a fringed blob
Dispensing failed fluctuations -
Thus bracing the system’s solidity.