Chaos v/s Pattern (Free will)

I have pondered this question since I was in 10th, is it chaos or pattern? Now as of today I am convinced that there exists no chaos, because there is always a pattern (No shit). Let’s take a look at the point closely with an example, a classroom filled with chaos (just assume), people talking, laughing, sneezing, shouting, writing and some weirdos studying, when you explore closely with your peepers (eyes) you will notice that people are creating a pattern to converse or interact, you will that maximum talks or jokes are initiated by the people with similar personalities whom are surrounded by the similar set of people. If you see as a whole the pattern starts with a joke which is continued and used until feels like overused and then it crashes, finally a new pattern is established, thus a new but related genre. You will also find one or two attention seekers, who are just crossing limits to grab their chance to be in the spotlight.

Pattern is a universal concept, what I assume is that the universe is itself a pattern of events, where everything falls in line to make an order. It is totally visible how there is a pattern in science, where genetics say if there was one simple change, we would not look, talk, or think like how we are doing today. There is 1 in 10^2,685,000 chances of human existence around the Universe (it is actually assumed 0).

There is so much pattern that you can feel it when someone is laughing, talking, crying it’s always there and it is really frustrating to deal with. Thus Thomas Gary said wisely, “Ignorance is a bliss”. Once you start seeing patterns, it would become earlier for you to deal with daily conversations, like assume we are having a conversation and you know that I get distracted easily, but now you see the distraction getting me and change or divert conversation accordingly.

But being neutral, practical and resting my perspective aside, there exists chaos almost everywhere.. Talking about the same classroom, we cannot define their next agenda of jokes or talks, because they are in a state of flow and are likely to be more unpredictable (because unpredictable is funny or emotion catchy). We don’t know what their brain is processing or not processing anything at all. To figure this out, I tried to be an observer of my own chats with someone. It started from the death of a relative, a friend's failure to perform well, some gossip/bitching, politics and optimistic science. If you look closely you may notice patterns in the first two agendas but after that they are not totally or any how related (if you see patterns, then it's your brain creating meaning out of nothing, because the human mind thinks that everything has some meaning). Perhaps the conflict is not between chaos and pattern, but between perspective and limitation. What we call chaos might simply be a pattern too complex for our current capacity to decode. The classroom feels unpredictable because we cannot compute every variable; mood, memory, ego, fatigue, hunger, insecurity, attraction, boredom all interacting at once. It is not that there is no structure; it is that the structure is multi-layered and moving faster than our perception. Just like weather appears chaotic until mathematics models it, human interaction appears random until you slow it down. Yet even then, something escapes. There is always a residue: a sudden joke, an impulsive comment, a shift in tone that refuses to fit into the framework. Maybe that residue is what we label as chaos. Or maybe it is simply the edge of our understanding. In that sense, chaos does not threaten patterns. It reminds us that our desire to find order might be stronger than order itself.

Now if you look back and notice that nature has always been biased towards the people who understood the patterns early: predators/hunters, mentalists, stock market brokers etc. You must have noticed that I gave a hint to my bias (towards pattern) in previous sections by categorising people on the basis of attention, because I think if you understand the value of pattern recognition you can achieve power, money and then what not, because people don’t realise that they are following a pattern set by marketers or politicians or businessmen. I am not saying they are evil and we shall boycott them but instead what really matters is what you are doing about it, as at last it is all about you (trust me I will repeat this statement). These mentioned people are smart and should be studied to start with, because they already know how and when to get attention, nowadays you will see that data of peoples preference is more valued, and data is being sold heavily across the globe. Watch google analytics, spotify, youtube, pinterest they know everything about you: your interests, passion, careers and sometimes very personal things. After knowing all this I was able to evaluate Pattern recognition equals to money (Yeah, I did not use symbols equal to, to take up more space).

My final argument for Pattern would be the study of free will by Robert Sapolsky, where he concluded that humans do not have free will. He suggests, Every human behavior is the result of prior causes over which we had no control, which contains genes, hormones, childhood experiences, culture etc. He supports this idea using research from neuroscience and biology. For example, some brain studies show that the brain begins preparing a decision before we are consciously aware of making it. Changes in brain structure, hormone levels, or early life experiences can also strongly affect how a person behaves. This suggests that our decisions are not created out of nothing, but are shaped by factors that existed before we even realized we were “choosing.”
Sapolsky explains behavior as a chain of causes: our actions come from brain activity, brain activity is shaped by our biology and development, and our development is shaped by genetics and environment. At no point in this chain do we find a completely independent “free” self controlling everything. If this is true, then human behavior is not chaotic but patterned, extremely complex, but still following causes and effects. What seems random may simply be a pattern that is too detailed for us to fully see.