Climate Change & The Meaning of History: Mandlebrodt Sets
Climate Change & The Meaning of History: Mandlebrodt Sets
If so (if that joining of ideas is apt), then what is the shape of the present moment? Along what complex fractal trajectory have we come to the present moment in world history? What (therefore) will tomorrow --the big tomorrow-- bring?
Is it possible to use this configuration of ideas as a template for thinking empirically about the present, past and future. Can using it (as a framework of thought, a potential set of algorithms for perceiving reality, and for acting successfully/adaptively with it) provide us with a sufficient sense of meaning that we can see past and present and future together, to prophecy futures if not quite to predict them? To prophecy the future in its form, if not in its particular details?
And of what consists an apprehension of the future in its form? [I am circling --looping-- around here in a space of thought. Up a level, over a sub-space, back and forth along a period of time, and between periods.]
This is, it seems to me, an intuition toward which hermeneutics is heading. In studying hermeneutics via Gadamer (and Foucault in Order, Lyotard too) (and, of course, rooted in Lakoff, Siegel, Thom, Spencer Brown, Bateson and those, as well) I am attempting to grasp a form, a shape of presence and development through historical time. I think Gadamer may know this, but not the mathematics of it.
More to come, I expect.
If so (if that joining of ideas is apt), then what is the shape of the present moment? Along what complex fractal trajectory have we come to the present moment in world history? What (therefore) will tomorrow --the big tomorrow-- bring?
Is it possible to use this configuration of ideas as a template for thinking empirically about the present, past and future. Can using it (as a framework of thought, a potential set of algorithms for perceiving reality, and for acting successfully/adaptively with it) provide us with a sufficient sense of meaning that we can see past and present and future together, to prophecy futures if not quite to predict them? To prophecy the future in its form, if not in its particular details?
And of what consists an apprehension of the future in its form? [I am circling --looping-- around here in a space of thought. Up a level, over a sub-space, back and forth along a period of time, and between periods.]
This is, it seems to me, an intuition toward which hermeneutics is heading. In studying hermeneutics via Gadamer (and Foucault in Order, Lyotard too) (and, of course, rooted in Lakoff, Siegel, Thom, Spencer Brown, Bateson and those, as well) I am attempting to grasp a form, a shape of presence and development through historical time. I think Gadamer may know this, but not the mathematics of it.
More to come, I expect.
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