[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[Heather Perella]

Comments below:

> [Case]
> I would like to suggest once again that the shape of
> the MoQ is fractal. It is
> infinite complexity of form and shape across scale.
> It is the tension between
> flying off to infinity and annihilation.
 
> [Arlo]
> I have no problem accepting a fractal metaphor for
> the MOQ. I like the idea that
> "pattern focus" can bring shapes into focus (on one
> level), but as one gets
> closer one finds that the "pattern" emerges from the
> interplay of parts, each
> themselves capable of being brought into focus. The
> only thing I am unsure of
> is how to frame (in this metaphor) the emergent
> "leaps" when a level of
> complexity ceases to be just an increase in
> complexity and becomes a whole new
> thing.


     These "leaps" are already metaphored as
punctuated, as in Punctuated Equilibrium (Stephen Jay
Gould and Niles Eldridge).

snow still fallin,
SA


 
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