[MD] Intellectual activity

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Ayar,

  Case 1: Consider a color blind individual staring at a computer screen. The screen is blank except for a square graphic in the middle. The square graphic appears to be static to the color blind individual.
   
  Case 2: But to a person with normal vision the square is cycling through various shades of red, let's say.
   
  In the first case, the graphic is both static and a pattern.
   
  In the second case, the graphic is "dynamic" in some sense, yet seemingly still the same pattern (a square).
   
  I guess that's what I'm getting at by suggesting a "weak" split between the static and dynamic.
   
  Contracting the parameters "static" and "pattern" to "patterned" and "unpatterned" we might get into trouble.
   

I don't see how the second case does not represent a pattern. If it is cylcing through colors that is a pattern. Static/dynamic is not about moving versus not moving or changing versus not changing. Movement and change can be patterns.

You asked me for an example of something that is truly static. The hard question would be to describe something that is truly dynamic. If it could be described it would be static.

Steve

		
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