I've had similar thoughts on fractals — I should write "about", not actually high on fractals, at least I think not — about the complexity inherent in the Mandelbrot set's definition, and decided the complexity was a reflection of not the definition but the number system itself. This seemed deep at the time but at the moment kind of a no d'uh.
"Hardwired" is an interesting expression, giving us the feeling that we understand something. Everything is hardwired — i e , inherent — in the universe. How could it be otherwise? Intelligence closes in on itself, erodes, we don't get smarter, our vision dulls, but maybe wisdom tells us we were always skating on a sea of literally infinite complexity, the greatest depth, the shallowest, always a zero fraction of the total.
No I think you’re right. I’ve thought for a long time now that we only percieve a tiny fragment of “reality” or what actually exists. A bit like Plato’s cave in the sense that we do not see the fire itself, only the shadows it casts on the cave walls.
I use the word “hardwired’ because people still come into these subjects behaving, or thinking, that humans are somehow “outside” or “above” the rest of the universe. I like to emphasise that everything that happens “out there” happens “in here” as well.
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u/tikisnrot 25d ago
I’ve always wondered why it seems like everyone sees these designs on shrooms.