Self Organization, Chaos, and Subtle-Energy Phenomena

When I was a graduate student in sociology in the late 80's and early 90's chaos theory and self-organization were concepts that were just coming into the mindset of the physical sciences. These ideas suggest that at the basis of reality, the universe has some fundamental intelligence that is self-aware, fluid, and evolutionary. My interpretation of this is that, in essence, the universe thinks. The idea is that small changes can cause big outcomes and even causing an entire system to form a new "domain of attraction:" the systems can spontaneously reorganize to create entirely new patterns and interactions. And they do this without our conscious, deliberate intervention.
My experience with remote viewing, crop circles, ETs, and other phenomena in the last ten years makes me think these are self-organizing systems that exist independently of our conscious, deliberate minds. This is what makes them so challenging to explain. We are used to systems that interact with our conscious, rational thinking minds, and as such are controllable to a degree. They respond to our direct intentions. However, with these subtle-energy based systems, they respond to our indirect, subtle intentions, and that is what makes them so puzzling. Remote viewing, for example, as a subconscious process is not directly accessible by our conscious mind. But when the viewer gets target contact, it shows us that our minds, and the larger universe, are self-actualizing processes that operate without our conscious intent. Likewise for crop circles and UFOs. There is an intelligence there, but it is organized on a very different basis than our rational, deliberate, thinking minds. For related ideas see Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less by Guy Claxton.