Is chaos the absence of thought? Is thought that important? What's your thought on this thought?

Question

Thank you all for your answers. Have a great day!

Answer 1

Absence of thought is more in keeping with the Greek interpretation of "chaos". Sort of a vast nothingness.

Now it simply denotes a lack of organization. So chaos could just as easily be an overabundance of thought, or an overruling of thought by emotion.

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
– Nietzsche

Answer 2

The word 'chaos' may be used to describe unordered or disordered conditions in a thing. In the mind the word could mean more than one thing, e.g. absence of 'thought' could be a peace condition or a forced retardation in thought process, but does the individual feel 'chaos' in it. Possibly not. Whereas in an other mind, the anatomy for thought is fully intact, but disordered in such a way as to allow an awareness of and in self's own incoherence or loss of self reflection and intelligibility, but not an 'absence' of thought. It seems a question and perception of an awareness and notion for control and loss or gain of it.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 3

There are different types of thought, but I will not get into that here because I don't know enough. Chaos is the absense of order (sort of). I think often in words, but not always, and right now I think you have more than one thought to think about. But without thought how could we even think about this in the first place? Consider this:

Do the planets think? Would you describe them as chaotic in their periodic orbits around our sun? So in the absense of thought (the planets) we have a system that resembles something that is not chaos. And to address your second question, thought does not seem to play an important role in the motions of our solar system. This same analogy may apply to many systems, large and small.

So on to the answers! No, to your first. No and yes, to your second. And for your last question, I think I've done thunk too much already about these here thoughts.

Answer 4

Chaos is not absence of thought, but confusion among several thoughts. Thought is very important because that's what makes a human being superior to other species. You can suppress all thoughts that arise in your conscience and experience the quiet of 'no thought' during meditation.

Answer 5

Chaos is the absence of order.

Order is achieved with law and order.

Where does thought come in? I think that in the soothing of a mans vile emotions by justice applied to his sense of fair play, order is restored and chaos is no more.

When we deal with chaos, we are talking about emotions and passions. Thought will be erratic and mainly concerned about fighting and winning.

Therefore thought is not in control here, passion is.

Answer 6

Chaos is the absence of peace. If you want peace you dont need to think about nothing.

Answer 7

Chaos is the absence of pattern.

Thought helps to perceive patterns. But not always. Patterns exist whether we're aware of them or not. As does chaos.

So thinking may help you feel more in control during times of perceived chaos, but that does not mean that you are.

Answer 8

Chaos exists at the beginning of everything.

Thinking is important because it is the first step of our journey to find the truth. And at the beginning of thinking surely there is chaos.

Answer 9

Chaoes, Anarchism is not the absence of thought, on the contrary, it is presence of perverted thoughts. Take for example the post modernistic thinkers. do they, or their theories contribute to cosmos? The are actually contributing to anarchism and chaoes, or creating them. So it is not mere absence of thought, but active presence of wrong and perverted thought.

Mahatma Gandhi said: Non volence is not mere staying away from voilence, it is activly fighting against voilence.

Answer 10

chaos is the absence of order, thought is irrelevant its only a formatted perception of something