Fractal patterns and random chance…
Life is a progression of random events that can be seen as a fractal across a wide range of scales. This pattern is mistakenly viewed as linear, or even as causal. Rather than seeing a fractal pattern of an unending repetition of a random event, humans somewhat helplessly keep looking for a plan where none exists.
The Covid-19 virus is an excellent example. Corona viruses randomly appear throughout human history as a fractal across a wide range of scales. The urge to see these random occurrences as the result of some cause may have gone “viral.”
What is this seemingly compulsive urge to find “an explanation” in random events? The “reason” for the spread of a virus is because it is a virus. It’s distribution throughout human societies is a series of chance events following fractal patterns, not linear events following causal patterns. It is our species that continually looks for “an answer,” “a cause,” or “something to blame.” Is there a cause for that obsession or is it a random event?
We are conditioned or perhaps hard wired to find the why. In someways that serves us well. This isn’t necessarily one of those times. I think it’s due to a false need to control, without giving into the fact that uncertainty is certain.