Fuzzy logic? You bet !

There's little water in the Spokane river right now (08/2005). It is interesting to see the basalt lined channel that the river runs through in downtown Spokane. The basalt utterly smooth, as it is, but with that chipped surface that makes it look as if it was carved with focused artistic intent. As if, form, as well as, function were considered in it's creation. Which implies that nature may desire form at least as much as it rewards function. A twist on the old, If you want a bird with a bigger beak give em 10,000 years and a harder nut to crack, theory. But then basalt isn't alive, can't evolve and is merely a medium that has been worked by water wielded by time to nature's design in accordance with limiting physical and material properties. But let's assume that nature desires unlimited artistic expression. The physics of water falling on rock may in fact have limited potential outcomes at the creation wide level of observation.

The low head turbines are quiet now what with no water. But when the water is up it's a rushing by of whiteness over deep greens that makes your eyes flicker back and forth as you focus on some fleeting sub-image beneath the unchanging overwhelming surface image of rushing water; and loosing it in the rush your eyes sweep back to find another foothold in the white array. All rushing water looks the same from a distance, doesn't it? Your mind not being able to isolate and interpret the real details where all the chaos is exposed, you never see the noise on the curve, just the major summation of all the figures, the averages of the motions and the colors the overwhelming line of mediocrity. (And almost, but not quite of course...Sit down all you therapists..This is fiction, you feel like jumping off into the chaos).
Which means, having chosen not to leap into chaos, one is forced to follow the overwhelming line of mediocrity, accept it and live in it. We can't all be heroes. But nature can not abide this narrow band chaos. A reactive chaos limited by the inert materials it is acting upon. Nature desires to be a proactive artist. Nature wants to exploit the noise on the curve. Nature desires proactive chaos. A construct can be limited by the constructors personality. So, there is a difference here between nature's constructs and nature's wild child, life. Nature's invention of proactive chaos.

In the deeper remaining pools of the Spokane River, trench and concrete work from years ago are still visible. The remains of some city dwellers construct incorporated into the riverbottom. The original artist's intention is disfigured but still recognizable. Many city dwellers (created by proactive chaos remember), responding to their inner artist, attempt to adorn the river in random and impulsive ways. Mostly by decorating it with bicycle frames and the odd sneaker from convenient points of access. The rough equivalent of a compulsion to try to put lipstick on the Mona Lisa...... If you don't look nature directly in the eyes you can see her smile also.

But being part of the noise on the curve of creation....(and I mean all of "us")..Well it's a start.