chaos

The human mind craves unity. Conversely, the thing we find most difficult to tolerate is chaos or randomness. For example, we look into the heavens and see a seemingly random mass of stars. But we are uncomfortable with such disorder so we seek to discover patterns or "constellations." We try to organize what we see into a unity, or series of unities. Or again, we observe the phenomena of nature, including human nature, and find them on the surface to be complex and unrelated. Unhappy with this, we immediately begin looking deeper to construct a theory or hypothesis that will organize what we see into some sort of unified whole. This is the process we call "science." Or again, we consider the seemingly chaotic, unrelated details of the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations. Such randomness is inherently dissatisfying, so there exists a natural tendency to arrange the events into some unifying pattern or "conspiracy." this is as it always has been. The human mind is constantly seeking to discover unity in the stimuli it receives, to separate those items that seem to be related to one thing from those that are related to another.