Chaos is the intrinsic probabilistic texture of the universe. It forms the ever-present environmental conditions within which the observable broad processes of movement, growth and evolution take place. The cosmos was not formed from chaos. The cosmos appears to an awareness as form within the context of chaotic structure. It is an infinitely multiple lattice of interacting and complexifying structures each of which may induce perturbations in the others.

The defining property of the universe is that it's structures are corruptible and not absolutely mathematically or analytically predictable. This sporadic nature appears wherever one looks; in the physical clouds and turbulence of the air, in the disintegration of radioactive elements, in the random arrival of cosmic rays and the variations of genetic mutation. It is even to be recognized in such diverse arenas as the uncertainly principle of sub-atomic physics and all the exceptions to the rules of the grammar of languages.

There are irregularities at every level of shape or motion or structure or whatever, so that attempting to absolutely conceptualize a form is impossible. The apparent form of an entity at one scale becomes a different form at another scale. The form of any living things for instance, is that conceptual simplification which an awareness abstracts from its presentation at a particular scaling. But as increasing detail is sought...with increasing magnifications for example... so the original form complexifies and any ultimate and definitive appreciation of the form becomes ever more elusive. The general appreciation of the form of treeness, which may be no more than a simple catalogue of trunk shape, branch form, leaf structure, root pattern, etc at a macro level, becomes increasingly more complexified as one investigates the formal aspects of bark and cambrium layers and then cells and genes and molecules and so on.

At every scale, any form that is imposed upon the entity under consideration, will be subject to disorders significant at that scale. Every tree has broken or irregular branches, bark invaded by lichen and eaten by insects, and so on. In looking for form one has to simplify and overlook the irregularities, but in many ways, the perturbations dominate any supposition of form.

The patterns that mathematics has chosen to call chaotic, are formal simplifications of what had formerly been deemed to be probabilistic predictability. Certain non-linear feedback systems of precarious stability which have exhibited seemingly unpredictable and catastrophic behaviour have been shown to exhibit hitherto unsuspected structures. Never-the-less the form of these structures, like any imposed forms at any presumed level of complexity, are only obtained by imposing simplifications onto the observedly infinitely intricate. No system has ever been absolutely predictable by the imposition of a theoretical model. There has always been error and uncertainty induced by the instability of the environment. When these influences have been contrived to be insignificant, it has been tempting to declare that the system was predictable or deterministic, but in fact they never were. As soon as the haphazard disturbances of the environment became more significant and any positive feedback became more influential, then the presumed stability of the system adopted a mode of behaviour which was characterised by a seemingly random instability and unpredictability.

Chaos is intrinsic to cosmic processes. The random cumulative perturbations of interstellar materials precipitate the processes which generate the diverse macro objects of galaxies, quasars, solar systems and the like. Biological entities only evolve because of the chaotic essence whereby their mutations prove to be beneficial or otherwise. Chaos is not to be supposed as some kind of imperfect and deficient state. Chaos is the very essence and driving impetus of the cosmos.