On a recent friday, as part of my worrying about emergence, I was trying to
find out what sort of language wise people use when they explain the greater
resistance of triangles to compression. it seemed to me that that example
provided all the complexity we needed for a thorough-going discussion of
emergence. So if I could learn how wise people talked about it, perhaps I
could learn how to talk about emergence in general.
In what field, I wonder, do they discuss the greater strength of some
configurations of members vis -a vis others. SOMEBODY offered me the answer to
that question, but I have forgotten what the answer was. Some sort of
mechanics .... elementary? Can anybody remember or provide the information
again? Why are triangles strong?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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