Piercing My Paradigm

Deep in Microspace

Bursting Forth

Looking up in a deep forest.

     The chill and dusk of winter has inspired me to dig out my Extreme Fractal Program and spend some weeks zooming in and out through mathematical algorithmic iterations for which we can thank Mandelbrot and Julia, and these are tied to computer programs that allow me to cruise through hypothetical universes at many scales and with an awesome complexity of colors and textures.

     Just after listening to Carl Sagan and Steven Hawkins describe multiple universes with multiple scales and dimensions, perhaps even laws of physics, I find my Mid-Twentieth Century academic mind was not prepared for this.     

     Only in 1980 when Benoit Mandelbrot put his fractal algorhythm to an IBM test, did we learn that there is order in chaos...that when we see chaos, it is because we haven't found the pattern; we're not looking at the right "ZOOM"   This expansion of my imagination allows a paradigm that says...

"Don't see order?; 

Then change your perspective!"

     For me, Mandelbrot set in motion a liberating chain of thoughts, for if the same fractal geometry that creates a spiraling spring fern has similar properties when seen as far away as a galaxy, then we can no longer deny a certain unity  between human ability to understand how nature programs creation...emergence as we now call it.

     Were all that not enough, the power of color to influence what we think we see is overwhelming is shown by the three images above, which are essentially from the same zoom, but have three different set of instructions for color and background.  It reassures my spirit to know that even in the infinite zooms of my cells, emergence of potential awareness exists.