Pattern Recognition
Been thinking about patterns and stories and…thought I would post these quotes to tag to some of the links / people that come up
"A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static." R.Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), U.S.American philosopher and inventor. Critical Path, 1981.
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), English philosopher and mathematician. Dialogues, June 10, 1943.
Mathematics is commonly described as the "Science of Pattern."
"A successful person isn’t necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving." "As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up." - Ray Kurzweil
Life: "The ability of entities (usually organisms) to reproduce into future generations. Patterns of matter and energy that can perpetuate themselves and survive" source
More about what is a pattern
Image source (c) Martin Wattenberg via visualcomplexity
thanks to Eileen, Paul and Gideon for making this crucial for me to learn
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November 20th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Some different literacies for the 21st century:
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/agelit.htm
November 20th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Hi Natalie,
Thought you might enjoy this quote…
“If you can’t draw a picture of it, it isn’t a pattern” — Christopher-Alexander
Did you know he studied under Bruner? The picture above, is that music? I thought I was making some progress, yesterday, with my thoughts on engaging the brain with pictures, changing from viewing an ‘object’ to establishing a connected ‘relationship’, then I found an old quote…
Beyond relation there is pattern — Gregory-Bateson
Patterns are cool :)
November 20th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
thanks Ken
And also you added the person I had forgotten to add!! Christopher Alexander is on my mind - I have his first book, not the second two…and I don’t know enough about him…and I was thinking about him and his Pattern Language Book…
Just looked at Bruner - didn’t know him…and just saw he wrote “The Narrative Construction of Reality.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bruner
thank you!! Patterns are indeed cool!
November 20th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Somehow feel I need to mention dyslexia and autism….feel they two hold some keys to pattern genius
November 21st, 2006 at 1:30 am
Natalie,
Thank you for your great quote of Bucky’s from Critical Path!
There is a whole section of Synergetics on Pattern:
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s05/p0400.html#505.00
My essay on “Reading Synergetics: Some Tips” might be helpful if you decide to
read (parts of) Synergetics:
http://www.cjfearnley.com/synergetics.essay.html
The “Synergetics Collaborative” will soon be announcing two events for 2007
where you can meet others interested in form and pattern and making the world
work for 100% of Humanity without offense to anyone:
http://synergeticists.org
Do Enjoy!
CJ
We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We’re not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work?
— Buckminster Fuller
“Dare to be Naive” — Bucky Fuller