Order vs. Randomness

[Rayaan]

Citation needed.

So, yeah, I still haven't found anything that refutes the quotes that I presented regarding Taoism and what is says about patterns in nature.

Citations needed? Hehe, don't think you're fooling me because I know you're not blind ...


But still, here they are (the citations, as you asked):

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Trust in Nature as an Organic Pattern

The Chinese yin-yang conception of nature is an organic reproduction pattern of nature and the cosmos. Nature exists outside of and beyond human control. Taoists regard this human embedding in larger universal processes with wonder, awe, and deep appreciation.

In nature, there is an ordering - dizzying and exquisite in its variety - that exists endlessly. (Think of the infinitely proportioned, kaleidoscopic images of fractal geometry, and you'll begin to get a sense of the intricacy, beauty, and endless "scalability" of natural patterns in the Taoist view.)

This order, this series of resonances, is both indescribably vast and intricately interdependent. It is an order that includes other "makers' of order - like bees and humans. The associated notion from the poem "Desiderata" - that we are all children of the universe, on a par with the planets and the stars, and that the universe unfolds in the proper way whether or not we recognize it as doing so - comes close to providing a parallel with the Taoist reverence of nature and its patterns.

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Dao can be roughly thought of as the flow of the universe, or as some essence or pattern behind the natural world that keeps the universe balanced and ordered.

... whereas you hold the opposite view even though you're a Taoist yourself. Here is the citation for that, as you asked:

My background is in mathematics, so while I appreciate the notion of elegance, I view that as more a property existing in a strange and disordered pattern throughout mathematical space.

Either your opinion above is incorrect or the citations above are incorrect, because they are clearly contradictory views.

If you think that the cited quotes are incorrect, then simply show something to prove it.