Originally Posted by
DGenBen
No order could mean:
Absence of any structure (pure nothingness)
Or a neutral state, like before structure or entropy emerges
Disorder implies:
There was some order, and it became jumbled. Or that systems have randomness or entropy
So:
No order ≠ disorder, though they’re often lumped together.
No order = not yet any rules
Disorder = rules were broken or randomness took over
Think: a blank page (no order) vs a page with scribbles (disorder)
And besides disorder there is also datorder which is the udda order.