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?]