### confusion:

Chaos
* breaks out when a meteor crashes on Earth, bearing one-celled organisms.
* can be energy which looks random close up but from a distance shows as a pattern.
* comes when there are harmonics in a binary ratio.
* covers everything that seems to be disorderly but in fact adheres to underlying patterns.
* deals with how a system evolves and changes over time.
* even explains the roughness of the earth's surface.
* generates subtle, complex, and rapidly changing order.
* is dynamical systems
  - eukaryotes
  - everywhere, all the time, in every way, all things
  - physical phenomenons
* lies in the realm of the non-linear.
* occurs on different time scales
  - when larger forces balance
* poses problems that defy accepted ways of working in science.
* precedes creation.
* reduces species extinction by amplifying local population noise.
* reigns at the borderline of creation and destruction.
* represents matter's desire for form.
* results when laws are broken
  - something unpredictable happens
* takes hold of nearly every level of society.

### confusion | chaos:

Virtual chaos
* defines god as the sum total of everything
  - the cosmos as ten dimensional torque and consciousness
* theory of everything.
* work in progress.

Mental confusion
* affects the patient's ability to work and function.
* can occur from drinking too much.
* is accompanied by a severe headache, high fever, or impaired speech or vision
  - increasing lapses in memory and distinct personality changes
* is an inevitable consequence of old age
  - inevitable, incurable consequence of old age
* state of mind

### confusion | perplexity | dilemma:

Double bind
* are ineluctable cyclical absurdities which are irremediable on their own terms
  - the normal experience for women within a patriarchal social organization
* is dilemma

Ethical dilemma
* can arise when dementia is also involved.
* occur when multiple responsibilities conflict
  - values are in conflict
* run through the practice of anesthesiology.

Moral dilemma
* are crucial choices individuals are forced to make between unwelcome alternatives
  - misfortunes that lead to remorse, self-reproach, regret, and residual duties
* arise in every generation.
* come to focus through discussions on cheating, drinking, drugs, forgiveness and more.

### congruent:

Geometrical object
* are 'congruent'
  - things like cylinders and spheres
+ Congruence: Geometry
  * Numbers  are equal. Geometrical objects are 'congruent'. Two shapes are congruent if one can be moved or rotated so that it fits exactly where the other one is. If one of the object has to change its size, the two objects are not congruent. They are called similar. Also, every two objects which are congruent are similar at the same time. Geometrical objects can be equal, too, but only if they are in the same place, so an object can only be equal to itself.

### conifers:

Bristlecone pine
* are aged by counting tree rings, which form annually within their trunks
  - fairly common in the regions where they grow
  - known for attaining great ages
  - very slow growing
* can be a thousand years old.
* grow atop the open, windy cliffs along the rim
  - from the barren, rocky slopes here
  - on the highest ridges
  - with a lot of space between each tree
* is conifers
  - pine
* occur in only six western states.