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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFractals are nature's metaphors. Or are metaphors literature's
fractals? Pleasing to human beings brought up in nature. Discuss.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)An underlying reality?
applegrove
(118,778 posts)us as fractals do. You get the reality in the narrative then you get something that visually represents that reality, but on a different scale.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Simplifying existence down to its most basic (or basest) form. ("Who cut the cheese?" )
If fractals were metaphors for the explosion of rhetorical questions, the recursive would be an endless giggle-fest of "he who smelt it, dealt it" played out across space and time by humans struggling with questions of their own existence. ("Why am I here?"
Or not.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)applegrove
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Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)But what if you are the cheese? ("I am the Cheese"
Does the fart or the farting prove my existence? (The doubting?)
But does it answer the why?
Unless you are the cheese.
...and the cheese stands alone.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Fractal formation does appear in nature, too.
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delrem
(9,688 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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delrem
(9,688 posts)I discount religious answers, on principle.
That makes the question all the more so awesome.
What I like about fractals is that they take advantage of the recursive "infinite", so they help me reconsider the notion of "infinity".
It is hardly godlike, in that form.
delrem
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delrem
(9,688 posts)to make fractals in the palette of Doom (the game, for user-made addons), but I relied on the mathematicians who invented the amazing visuals.
It was fantastic fun.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)So like attracts like. We recognize fractal forms as indicative of life and healthy growth.