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From: john.morss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Morss)
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:42:39 +1200
Liano wrote :
>The fractals are about seeing the
>formations in different ways. Imagine you go outside, lie down on a
>nice hill to watch the clouds with a friend. The two of you may look at
>the same cloud and see totally different shapes, you might see an old
>man's face, your friend might see a butterfly, both are really there and
>both cut across eachother so that having one suprresses the other and
>vice versa. Moreover, components of each may be used (partially or
>wholely) as componenets of the other. Insisting on one dismisses the
>other, imagine turning to your friend and saying "NO ITS NOT A
>BUTTERFLY, ITS AN OLD MAN, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT?!" (READ: "BUT the
>structure is there!!") How many points is your friend on the hill
>likely to give you? Fractals are about the old man and the butterfly
>being real and simultaneous while niether is inevitable, fractals are
>about the old man and the butterfly being within and without eachother
>(peices of each are found transformed in the other) and both being
>consistent with the cloud, fractals are about other formations that
>fragment eachother, the butterfly, and the old man into miriad other
>images all equally possible, none necessarily inevitable, all
>cohabitating amongst and throughout eachother.
if that's fractals, I'm the emperor's new body, or something???????
John R Morss PhD
Senior Lecturer, Education Department
University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin
NZ
tel (0)3-4798809
fax (0)3-4798349
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