If one is to simplify even the nature of the turbulence and
   chaotic attractors and take away the fanciness of it, what is
   left is a whirlwind or perhaps gravity - which, while it has
   more of a potential to be mathematically modeled, *still* leaves
   the impetus question: external, internal, neither, both, etc.

   It's hard not to wax poetic in all of this; are we but the eye
   of the storm in the midst of chaos? So then, what is the nature
   of the still point itself? An area of balance? etc. etc.

   Still, I find personally the interface between the still point
   and the surrounding chaos and/or complexity the most interesting
   part of all. The o between the -o+ - the slash between either/or
   - etc. I think that's where the juicy stuff is.

   It's the nature of impetus. Are we but [some set of external
   factors with which whose interactions produce life] or [an
   intrinsic 'something other' with its own impetus?]