{"id":2072,"date":"2018-08-22T19:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2018-10-01T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:41:44","slug":"order-out-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/general-insights\/order-out-of-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Order out of Chaos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something can appear chaotic while containing an inherent order. In this case, the \u2018chaos\u2019 is possibly very important.<\/h3>\n

People have a natural aversion to chaos.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This may even be seen as a general characteristic of life: in defiance of a universal \u2018fall towards entropy\/chaos\u2019, life stitches together a living space of order.<\/p>\n

Life, in this sense, is a continuous battle against chaos.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, people readily push away \u2018chaos\u2019 and put \u2018order\u2019 instead (note the brackets). This is an OK reaction in many cases. In many others, not.<\/p>\n

Essentially, an aversion<\/em> to chaos frequently comes forth from not looking very well at the involved \u2018chaos\u2019. Maybe there\u2019s more in it than just chaos. Maybe it needs to be looked at more profoundly.<\/p>\n

Say: something has a high degree of subtlety<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

but this subtlety \u2013 as always \u2013 doesn\u2019t show itself easily to someone looking from afar. To this person, looking only from afar, the subtlety disappears.<\/p>\n

Now take a lot of subtlety, then a lot disappears. What remains, is \u2018chaos\u2019. So it seems.<\/p>\n

The reality is quite the reverse.<\/p>\n

This can be solved by taking a much closer look. Herein lies the problem: people generally don\u2019t. Why? A closer look takes effort. It doesn\u2019t readily heighten status. It\u2019s not remunerated. In many cases, quite the contrary.<\/p>\n

Taking a closer look may even be very stressful. It may bring one closer to the insight that one\u2019s self-control is to a large degree illusory. Thus: that there\u2019s more \u2018chaos\u2019 inside oneself than one would wish.<\/p>\n

\u2018Chaos\u2019\u2026 or subtlety?<\/p>\n

Anyway, to get rid of this, people readily categorize<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which is, again, not always a good thing.<\/p>\n

Categorizing = making distinctions. The proper aim is then to make proper<\/em> distinctions. While this is always imperfect \u2013 never ideal \u2013 what\u2019s valuable lies in the quality of the endeavor.<\/p>\n

If the aim of making distinctions is just to get rid of chaos, what is created is mainly a lot of tension and adversity.<\/p>\n

A lot of irrationality disguised as rationality.<\/p>\n

Why is this important?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not making proper distinctions leads to an order that quickly turns into new chaos. Present-day Western society shows many examples. This is not to say that we\u2019re not making progress., but there still is a lot of unnecessary suffering around, to say the least.<\/p>\n

One huge example: pain<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A lot of concrete pain syndromes are being distinguished. However, for already quite some time, we scientifically know that most of these should be investigated and clinically managed as one entity with diverse symptomatic appearances. This is not at all some weird utterance by some fringe author. It stands at the core of medical knowledge.\u00a0[see: \u2018Chronic Functional Pain: All for One?<\/a>\u2019]<\/p>\n

This is no joke.<\/p>\n

The main reason why this is not being implemented in mainstream medicine (your everyday pain expert) is the not being compatible with the direction of the steam locomotive that still keeps rolling through the age-old landscape.<\/p>\n

This is the era of \u2018cowboys and injuns\u2019 and Cartesian thinking.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019re way past it and still completely within. Therefore, pardon me an extensive quote (*) at the bottom of this blog, from the very top researchers on functional pain.<\/p>\n

In complete contradiction to this, patients \u2013 while many physicians eagerly comply \u2013 are so very glad when they receive \u2018the concrete diagnosis\u2019. This is mainly because it relieves them from the threat of not-knowing and inner \u2018chaos\u2019 brought by chronic pain with no means towards any conceptual sense-making. This threat-relief may bring comfort\u2026 while crushing their best chances to really durably recover and even personally grow.<\/p>\n

Main conclusion: always validate \u2018chaos\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may just contain the one and only antidote against real chaos.<\/p>\n

Never ever put order against<\/u><\/em> \u2018chaos\u2019.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

(*) \u201cIn our current medical system, when a patient complains of physical pain or discomfort, and no physiological or \u2018organic\u2019 cause for that pain can be identified, despite extensive diagnostic testing, the patient receives the diagnosis of a \u2018functional pain syndrome\u2019. As soon as the symptoms are attributable to dysfunction of a particular organ system (the urinary tract, digestive system, or joints), a new, symptom-based classification is assigned to a limited number of symptoms, and a particular syndrome is diagnosed. \u2026 There now is a wealth of evidence that although such disorders may not express significant pathologies in the organs that are responsible for the primary symptoms, they are associated with substantial neurobiological, physiological and sometimes anatomical changes in the CNS. Alterations in the periphery (upregulation of receptors, increased numbers of immune cells) can be explained as peripheral manifestations of chronically altered output from the CNS in the form of autonomic and neuroendocrine activity, and bidirectional brain-body loops. \u2026 Accumulating evidence shows that these disorders have substantial comorbidity with each other and with other stress-related disorders such as chronic fatigue, PTSD, disorders of mood, and combat-related somatic syndromes. The link between pain and depression, for example, is almost impossible to sort out in terms of cause and effect. \u2026 A growing number of (inter)national meetings now feature symposia on the emerging unifying disease concept. A unified picture emerges of pain syndromes that, separately, have been marginalized and trivialized by the medical community. \u2026 The term \u2018FPS\u2019 has taken on a pejorative meaning, in that many health care professionals and laypersons believe it means that the pain is not real and the disorder is not serious. \u2026 It is now clear that there is a high comorbidity between these individual syndromes, that there are similar premorbid vulnerability factors (such as gene polymorphisms, female sex, and early life trauma) and similar trigger factors (including psychological and physical stressors), that there are similar abnormalities in CNS anatomy and function changes in cognitive function.\u201d [<\/em>E.A. Mayer, M.C.Bushnell: Functional Pain Syndromes<\/em>, IASP 2009]<\/p>\n

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