Fractals are nature's metaphors. Or are metaphors literature's

[applegrove]

fractals? Pleasing to human beings brought up in nature. Discuss.

[TDale313]

1. A way for us to visualize/put an image to...

An underlying reality?

[applegrove]

2. Complex repeating patterns viewed in nature. It pleases

us as fractals do. You get the reality in the narrative then you get something that visually represents that reality, but on a different scale.

[Solly Mack]

3. A fart is humankind's rhetorical question.

Simplifying existence down to its most basic (or basest) form. ("Who cut the cheese?" )

If fractals were metaphors for the explosion of rhetorical questions, the recursive would be an endless giggle-fest of "he who smelt it, dealt it" played out across space and time by humans struggling with questions of their own existence. ("Why am I here?&quot

Or not.

[applegrove]

4. LOL.

[delrem]

6. !

[longship]

7. DUzy! nt

[applegrove]

16. If you ((*)) then people know "you are there"!!!

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[Solly Mack]

17. So - I fart, therefore I am? (Ego pedet ergo sum)

But what if you are the cheese? ("I am the Cheese&quot

Does the fart or the farting prove my existence? (The doubting?)

But does it answer the why?

Unless you are the cheese.

...and the cheese stands alone.

[delrem]

5. Fractals are a form of recursive arithmetic.

Fractal formation does appear in nature, too.

[delrem]

10. Thank you so much!

[delrem]

11. The question about the origin of life has always interested me.

I discount religious answers, on principle.
That makes the question all the more so awesome.

What I like about fractals is that they take advantage of the recursive "infinite", so they help me reconsider the notion of "infinity".
It is hardly godlike, in that form.

[delrem]

12. That's beautiful. Who made that?

[delrem]

14. I once played with an open source fractal generator

to make fractals in the palette of Doom (the game, for user-made addons), but I relied on the mathematicians who invented the amazing visuals.

It was fantastic fun.

[bemildred]

15. Both fractals and humans are examples of recursively evolved forms.

So like attracts like. We recognize fractal forms as indicative of life and healthy growth.