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[Names have been changed.]
"Got a few minutes?
Come on out,
C'mon...
...look,
up,
clouds;
Mesmerizing, aren't they?
Watch 'em weave and flow,
tumbling all over themselves in a timeless cadence,
continually changing shape,
one atom nudging another,
that atom prodding still another and another and another;
wisps of angel breath simply flowing;
an ordinary, everyday ballet...
Such Beauty...
Such Grace...
The complexity is astronomically unimaginable;
well beyond man's present ability to compute.
It's all physics, though;
cause and effect.
Mass, momentum, force, temperature, atoms, molecules...
It's mathematical;
not any kind of math "man" has mastered,
but, an incomprehensible multifarious math;
an intricate, inauspicious, unyielding, ever-guiding, wholy fractal;
an all defining pattern repeated already in the subatomic realm,
then again in the atomic,
and once more in the molecular;
on through compounds,
and cells,
and tissues,
and organs,
and organisms,
and families,
and communities,
and societies,
and nations,
and worlds,
and planetary systems;
on through universal systems
and probably beyond that...
Because man cannot explain the complexity of the physics,
or harness it with interrelated mathematical equations and formulas,
do we just assume the cloud is deciding to move here,
changes its mind and then moves over there,
and then to another place, and another, and another?
Do we assume the cloud is making decisions?
We quite understandably assume there is some magical difference,
some supernatural anointing,
some gift given by the gods or god,
that differentiates between the natural phenomenon of clouds,
and the natural phenomenon of human experience.
If clouds are beyond man's ability to explain,
how much more is man beyond his own ability to explain?
Because man cannot explain the complexity of the physics,
or harness it with interrelated mathematical equations and formulas,
do we just assume humans are deciding to move here,
changing their minds and then moving over there,
and then to another place, and another, and another?
Do we assume the human is making decisions?
or,
is human behavior simply an exponentially more complex,
cloud?
Complexity.
The word is woefully inadequate.
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