The
Cloud of Unknowing THE FORM - The simplest 2D sign for the active human
figure is derived from the 5 pointed star with a line for the head/trunk, two
arms and two legs. The 7 limbed figure is a 3D equivalent, you see a 5 pointed
figure gesturing at every face.
THE LINE - A single line travels twice
through a series of 7 cross junctions in a regular sequence. Any regular three
dimensional figure with seven faces or seven points is determinedly asymmetric.
I discovered this when constructing the figure in the drawing. The figure always
turned one of its junctions inside out.
Above
a sculpture by Ruth Catlow, found under hypnosis.
This
unusual site translates common sentences using genetic
code to specify letters of the alphabet instead of coding for proteins. At
10,000 visits since 1998, it must be one of the least visited sites ever. 1,400
hits a month on a small site would account for just the page maker on a regularly
updated site. An almost untouched island in cyberspace.
It
is not that the 'answer' lies in nonlinearity. Nonlinearity and it's counterpoint,
hierarchy, are both needed to understand this universe. Nor is nonlinearity mutually
exclusive to linearity, or hierarchy and structure. The weather contains nonlinear
elements but each step in a storm (e.g. the increase of moisture in the air) is
linear. If only the linear elements are considered, the overall sense of the storm
is missed. If only the nonlinear aspects are attended to, the sequential structure
is missed.