ashton kutcher (and the butterfly effect)

Norbert Weiner emphasized the fact that communication is control.  Communication is more than control.  Communication is the source of all life and the reasons people and things have evolved and matured into the society we have today.  Communication is present in all forms, whether its language, internet, binary code, or simple hand gestures.  Almost every movement of every day is based on our ability to communicate with one another and our surroundings.  Any type of major technology or cyborg created is because people are able to communicate and want to enhance our abilities to do so.  My favorite part of class yesterday was learning about the butterfly effect.  The butterfly effect is the theory that one simple flap of a butterflies wing can cause a tsunami on the other side of the world.  It is amazing how the smallest, most harmless gesture can cause chaos within something meant to be organized.  This also supports the chaos idea in our other class that any type of togetherness eventually ends up in entropy, no matter what happens.  Also, it was stated in class that every whole, or system, is always greater than the sum of its parts.  This does not mean, however, that each minimal part is not essential in keeping the system together.  Without each and every important part, the whole cannot function as perfectly as possible.