> “Tangential” would seem to understate the case. Please reply here > if you want to talk about Arnold’s dangly bitsl Please please do not > gum up a perfectly good conversation about spandrels. > > Thanks, > > > > Nick > a1dc6b05992d78388f3e8d23cb7aeac2--byzantine-architecture-romanesque-architecture.jpg
In the case of the "ultimate spandrel", the working-parts of the */pendentive/* dome ARE the "dangly bits". Once you take away *everything else but* the Spandrels, what do you have? Whether their origin followed the traditional "just so" story or my own contrived one (mesolithic stacking of triangular liths by lith-worshipers), you have to admit that the "spandrels" are doing all the heavy lifting in the structure, even if you insist that what is being "utilized" is the negative spaces of the arches and the zenith-dome. I in the theme of DaveW's observations about whole-part evolution tension, I am reminded of Glen's recent snark: "there IS no individual". There is no whole, there are no parts, it's self-organized systems (relations), all the way down? As much as we seem to love to hate Stephen Wolfram, I think that is what he's talking about in his "New Kind of Science: Consciousness Edition" What Is Consciousness?--Visual Summary—click to enlarge https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/what-is-consciousness-some-new-perspectives-from-our-physics-project/ I think I "bent" EricC's bend of Nick's thread just a bit?... The Gordian knot of high school reform | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute Ramble, - Steve
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