Comments | visnuexe: Fractals and the way things are.

visnuexe

Fractals and the way things are.

Mar 28, 2005 21:30

Fractals have been occupying a bit of my time lately. I have diverted from working on the family history as a result. It's the creative side of me that loves fractals. I see so many things in nature that resonate to the same frequency as many fractals. Not to say looking at the real thing isn't the best thing. Look at just plants and how they ( Read more... )

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FREE AT LAST scribus March 29 2005, 18:33:33 UTC

Fractal philosophy digs deep into the areas that Camus was approaching. Things are as they are, complex and vast, absurd and rational.

I pondered over some of our recent fractals today, putting in mind the contents of your journal entry, and having in the back of that thought Camus' "Exile And The Kingdom". Random yet predestined. That is absurd. Complex yet simple. Another absurdity. We travel across a desert in search of something we have lost only to find we are in the same place as before, or that we have ended up in the same fate we might have anyway. We apply our parameters and trig functions and integers with determination, yet something takes over and leads us to where we never expected to go. When we attempt to order things, all os chaos, and we we look at the chaos, there seems to be some order therein. Absurdity ( ... )

Re: FREE AT LAST visnuexe March 31 2005, 17:05:50 UTC

Or could absurdity simply be a situation we don't understand? Before we knew about how fractals could mathmatically demonstrate some basic structures of the universe and nature, we attempted to explain those structures from a predictable method in an awkward way. Now we have more choices to explain those structures. It doesn't mean we control them, but at least we can make false models of them. Rational thought is certainly a limitation, and no we will never understand everything as we are mortal.

Does it really make sense to completely release any vestige of reason? Caos, can produce somewhat predictable range of results, as we use random factals to a known equation. We are learning more about how the random events cluster together to make what variable structures we see in nature. It gives us a better understanding of how natural forces work together.

Sure absurdity is more fun. Now all we have to do is figure out intuition and how it relates to it all.

Off the hip.

Re: FREE AT LAST scribus April 1 2005, 05:05:05 UTC

To quote John Cage, "Any attempts to be rational is irrational in the extreme."

Absurdity is merely a means to survive in an otherwise intolerable universe.

It is once we give up the pretense of control that we can are free to enjoy the life we have.

Control is an addiction that can have disastrous results.

Re: FREE AT LAST visnuexe April 5 2005, 13:24:30 UTC

You are right as always scribus. Control can be an addiction if it creates a problem. So can letting caos rein. I think there is a middle ground somewhere. It suffices to control what one can control, and not rail against the forces of nature or other people's behavior since one cannot control those things. Since we cannot control those things the only recourse left is to decide and attempt to control our reaction to them. We can minimize damage to ourselves that way. Iam thinking specifically how one reacts to another's usury of one's own rights. If we do use our rights we lose them. Enough deep thought for the day. Absurdity is more fun.