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We,The People, are not happy
Let’s compare the complexity of nature with the possibilities of the human brain. There is a gap! A canyon! You cannot blame the Homo sapiens for trying to simplify. They found science. They divided everything into smaller parts, assuming that smaller problems will be easier to solve. They had some success. Mother Nature was reduced to 95 atoms (give or take a few). Nature was reduced to a puzzle of which we knew the different parts. What a relief! The human brain had a chance to dominate the whole universe.
That did not last. We know today that the material world represents only 5% of reality. What a disappointment! We realized that we had been turning around our cage and should look for a way to escape. Instead of cutting the world into little pieces, we should try to unite. It is good to know that water is made of oxygen and hydrogen. That does not mean that the cycle of water in nature is irrelevant.
18 - Many ways to look at the world
The fractals
There are many ways to look at nature. Have you watched fractals? They are beautiful and you can find them everywhere. They have colors and movement. There is something fascinating about them. Sounds, colors, and movement are criteria of life. After finding something interesting, we should look for something similar elsewhere.
The first fractals appeared in 1979 and that was only a beginning. They made humans discover nature’s architecture.
Benoit Mandelbrot discovered the fractals using a computer to show the connection between shapes and mathematical formulas. You start with one point, and the formula tells you where the next point will be, and the next, and the next… That takes thousands of operations that only a computer can do. We went even further. We made fractals in 3 dimensions and music fractals.
After this discovery, we found fractals everywhere. They are in cauliflowers, ferns, mountains, lighting, our circulatory system…. For more than 5000 years humans were eating cauliflowers, looking at ferns, climbing mountains and afraid of lightning and nobody realized that they were surrounded by fractals. That does not make them look very bright - Does it?
Fractals are an invitation to change the way we look at nature. Fractals unite. After noticing something in Nature, we search for something similar elsewhere. After fractals in black and white and two dimensions, we made them in colors and three dimensions and discovered fractals in many places. It is like discovering a law of Nature that applies in many domains – something like gravity.
The association of opposites
There is another way to look at nature that does not require computers. Instead of looking for similarity, we look for opposition. For instance, you can start with a circle and a straight line. One is infinite. The other is limited. It is an association of opposites.
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Our hands are the mirror image of one another. They are made to work together. This is an association of opposites.
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Our DNA is a combination of a circle and a straight line. That does not prove anything but it is a clue.
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Our brain is associated with our nervous system. One brain inside bones with a spherical shape is associated with thousands of nerves, outside the bones with elongated shapes.
We are surrounded by associations of opposites like we are surrounded by fractals.
• Some opposites are more difficult to see. For instance, there is an association of opposites between the blood circulating in our veins and the leaves of a tree. The blood in our veins is red because it has iron that attracts the magnet. Red and green are complementary colors. The leaves of the trees have chlorophyll, which is green because it has magnesium, which repels the magnet. Our blood circulates. The chlorophyll does not. Blood is inside our body. Chlorophyll is on the surface of the plants...
One association of opposites does not mean much unless you can find many more…. Let’s keep digging.
• Ovule and spermatozoa. There is only one ovule, it moves slowly, it is circular, and it is one of the bigger cells of the body. There are millions of spermatozoa. Their shape is a straight line, and they move fast. They are very small. Ovule and spermatozoid are obviously made for each other.
• Body and soul. The outside of the body is connected to the center of the soul. This is what makes touching important and gives you goose bumps.
• Our life is a compromise between two extremes. One individual cannot survive alone in Nature. To live in society, we must abandon some of our freedom. In a democracy, the individual has all the rights but must delegate some of his rights to the government. Everybody must drive on the same side of the road. On the other hand, we want to preserve our freedom. We want to live the life of a free individual and at the same time be included in society! We are looking for a compromise between two opposites.
• Our life is divided between time awake and time asleep. When awake, we are conscious of the material world. When asleep, we could be conscious of the soul’s world.
The life of a couple could also be a compromise between two opposites. Each one must renounce some of his freedom and respect the individuality of the other. To be able to ask any question and get a complete answer implies that you don’t ask questions that infringe on others’ freedom. Two people can be associated with two planets turning around each other. United by their distance.
• Our conscious mind is centered in the domain of experiments and science. Our unconscious mind is in the domain of feelings and direct knowledge. Men could have their center of gravity in the conscious mind. Women could have their center of gravity in the unconscious. Sexes are an association of opposites made to work together.
• It is by investigating the faraway planets that astronomers discovered the dark matter and dark energy that surround us.
• We spend most of our life being free inside limits.
• Here are some more examples: Attraction and Repulsion of magnets - Past and Future – Thinking and intuition....
If we are looking for associations of opposites, chances are that we will not find them. If we are open-minded without looking for them, we will see them everywhere. That means that we will find them with our intuition rather than our thinking
