Clockwork & Fractal

The people in medieval era think of universe as like clockwork, machinery structured.
Thus, everything is programmed and predetermined. Pierre-Simon Laplace said;

We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

(1814)

The recent science follows a different theory, that is chaos theory.
In chaos theory, the world DOES have order, which is the loop of cause and effect, or feedback.
However, a tiny error or difference causes huge effects in this loop, and these errors occurs irregularly.
Thus, the world has a pattern, but at the same time, totally unpredictable.

Rules

There are natural rules and artificial rules,
Natural rules is based on the fact, such as math, physics, science and etc.
Artificial rules is based on the arbitrary decision of some human-being, such as law.

I used to study political science in Keio University in Japan, and especially interested in international politics.
I read the book written by Hedley Bull , "Anarchical Society" (1995).
He insists that the international state is basically anarchy, but the world order is maintained by the common benefit of each nations in the world.
Thus, we have a nature of trying to generate the order in the state of chaos, and the order is maintained by rules.

It's interesting that people started to believe in these rules as granted, and sometimes obsessed with them.
Artificial rules are essentially fiction and based on nothing.

On the other hand, natural rules are based on fact.
I found it interesting when I noticed that our body is ramified, same as trees.
The nature apparently have the order, and the order is not arbitrary. It's absolute, no exceptions.
I'm so attracted by its mystique.

Japanese artist Hitoshi Nomura observed the orbit of the moon throughout a year and found it forms the sign of infinity.
When I saw this work, I was so impressed to the extent of getting my skin crawled, because I felt that some god-wise figure exists behind the order of nature.

Invisible rules sometimes reveal a part of them.