Posted by alexandra_k on February 19, 2005, at 1:56:56
In reply to Re: Coral colony and fractals » Dinah, posted by AuntieMel on February 18, 2005, at 14:27:12
I think I understand this.
> The only question here is the structure of babble, and if babble would retain its wonderful uniqueness if that part of it changed.Babble is unique just the way it is. But it could also change and still be unique. I guess that the issue may be that some people seem happy with things just the way they are while Dr Bob has improvements in mind.
>Watching it evolve and change evokes in you a childlike feeling of awe. But if you were to examine it too closely it would become just a bunch of similar shapes. The magic would be gone.
But I think awe can be found in viewing it the other way too. Mathemeticians, for example (and maybe even physicists) do a lot of work with fractals. Analysing them and plotting their course and trying to use this to predict the behaviour of water or something (please don’t quote me on that to anybody who knows). But I bet that these people also feel the awe. It is the awe that inspires them to spend so much of their lives trying to understand them and figure them out.
Likewise with the study of the mind. Some people think that you shouldn’t try to study the mind (or soul if you like) with science because there is a wonderful mystery there and we can just wonder at it. But some people use their sense of wonder to discover still more wonders. Likewise with the study of life. The study of reproduction.
Likewise with the study of group dynamics or Babble.
To see it as a process group isn’t to make it any the less wonderful.
Just like with history. Is looking at patterns that recur over the course of history disrespectful to the individuals or is it a good way of helping future undividuals? Is looking at patterns that recur over Babble history disrespectful to the posters or is it a good way of helping future posters?
Don’t we want to have an optimal structure for symbiosis?????
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